Julian Casablancas Quotes

Doing heroin is like walking around with a terrorist as your friend. It's like taking a terrorist around to parties You never know when it's going to blow up on you.

Just slow it down enough to enjoy the ride.

Forgive them even if they are not sorry

I over-think stuff a lot.

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

I think you can only get closer to satisfaction but you never fully arrive.

I very often have night terrors. Just think of the worst possible situation, and it's a regular thing for me. I've died in my sleep twenty-three different ways.

Make sure your heart is singing right until the day it stops.

If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.

It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.

I always reference 'Mad Max' when I think about what I want to wear. But it's a fine line between that and 'Edward Scissorhands'.

L.A.'s kind of, like, seven really cool towns. It's so laid-back. If you go in the right spot, you can walk around, and you don't need a car.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents that are art.

Now, the good of business is put above anything else, as corporations have become the new ruling body. Most decisions seem to be made like ones of a medieval king: whatever makes profit while ignoring and repressing the truth about whatever suffering it may cause (like pop music, for that matter).

It's like an inner struggle for me, between saying I don't give a **** and trying to make it work. You want to do the right thing, but I'm sick of people thinking I'm difficult.

The way Lou Reed wrote and sang about drugs and sex, about the people around him - it was so matter-of-fact.

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

I am a fan of 'SNL' and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too.

In most cultures, you can have a kid at 18 and it's not a big thing. It's not like, 'Oh, you've got to get a different haircut and move to the suburbs and act, like, 35.'

The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.

I have to say, I'm good with gifts. If I find something perfect for a certain person, I'll just get it and put it away in a kind of nook under my bed - a little gift hutch, if you prefer.

We're so quick to point out our own flaws in others.

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

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.

Birth is a beautiful thing.

The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes.

I'm just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don't want him to feel too entitled.

It find it funny how people from Boston and New York hate each other because of pro teams.

With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?

Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.

I'm really grateful. But I never had the rock star dream. I thought it would be cool to be a modern-day composer.

A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it's the best form to receive it. There's genuine excitement from people. I feel like we've stepped up a level.

It's that feeling when you hear your favourite song. That feeling, whether you're in a car, at a party or alone at home or in bed and you hear this song and it just hits you so strong - that’s what we aim for.

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

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.

Compared to people in Africa, I think we've all had privileged upbringings.