Kids are always honest, 'cause they don't think they're ever going to die.

Working on music is the funnest thing for me, and I love it, and I could do it all day, all night.

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 kinda like messing with perception a little bit. Kind of what drugs do sometimes, and drinking. I mean, you know, you mess with your mind a little bit to see life from different angles. Within reason, if you can handle it.

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.

I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.

People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.