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 want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really good people leave clues that help feed the human race. That's my aspiration.

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

Birth is a beautiful thing.

L.A. is a vortex. The weather there tricks you into thinking you're on vacation, even when you're working fourteen hours a day.

There are so many little places I want to play, sometimes weird places I think would be fun to play... a bar that's half full.

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