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

That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.

The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.

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.

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.

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

I feel like I've given up a lot of my fantasies. I just want to do things differently, and to a lot of people that's annoying. I like weird stuff. I always hoped if we had a big success it would be on our own terms.