I think you can only get closer to satisfaction but you never fully arrive.

The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone.

I always want to make Strokes records and play Strokes shows.

The problem with touring isn't the traveling and the shows, it's the vegetal state you get into.

Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

Now, the good of business is put above anything else, as corporations have become the new ruling body. Most decisions seem to be made like ones of a medieval king: whatever makes profit while ignoring and repressing the truth about whatever suffering it may cause (like pop music, for that matter).