I think all of Manhattan has pretty much become a bar-slash-nightclub-slash-restaurant. There were always pockets of that. But now every corner of Manhattan is that.

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.

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

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

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.

I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.

Forgive them even if they are not sorry