If you're in a bar and a certain song comes on and the vibe is just different, it evokes the kinds of things that you want to feel, and if music can do that it's a very special thing.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

The only goal right now that I can have, the only thing I can offer right now, is the need to get good at music, do something with quality.

For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is going outside of The Strokes and The Strokes filtering process.

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

We're so quick to point out our own flaws in others.

I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.