I don’t shake at the site of alcohol anymore. I don’t feel the need for it. If anything I’ll get stoned. I always told myself if it got to the point that it was affecting my songwriting and music that I’d stop. And it did get to the point.

My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.

Compared to people in Africa, I think we've all had privileged upbringings.

The British press can be so annoying. They jerk you off with one hand and smack you with the other.

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

The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes.

Forgive them even if they are not sorry