Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!

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

It was 100,000 years before we figured out what to do with fire. Imagine cavemen, sitting in front of a fire, eating raw meat for 100 thousand years.

I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.

You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.

A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it's the best form to receive it. There's genuine excitement from people. I feel like we've stepped up a level.

Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.