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.

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

It find it funny how people from Boston and New York hate each other because of pro teams.

I think all of Manhattan has pretty much become a bar-slash-nightclub-slash-restaurant. There were always pockets of that. But now every corner of Manhattan is that.

No matter who I'm talking to, I always talk like I'm doing an interview.

If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.

Pretty much the only goal I've had since the beginning, which I still have, is just to get better, work hard, focus, and everything else will just be a bonus. As long as I'm satisfied, and I think we're getting better with every song compared to the last, then I'm satisfied and that's all I want. If we don't achieve that, then I'll be disappointed.