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.

Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.

Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?

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

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

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

When the Strokes first started playing gigs, instead of getting into a costume for the shows, we talked about how we should dress every day, in real life, like we're playing onstage. I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence. Or maybe helps you pick up chicks.