Quotes from Fab Moretti

Every once and a while there's a point where mainstream and garage kind of cross.

Part of being really objective about your trade, your music, or your art is recognizing that you might not know everything about it.

I applied to come to Harvard and they didn't accept me.

We just try not to get big heads.

We try to make air-tight, intricate songs with melodies and counter-melodies and rhythms that work together, and we try to make it as palatable as possible - something that's not difficult to listen to.

I don't spend much time reading our own press.

Julian is a very humble guy, so he might not say this, but he never lived with John Casablancas. John Casablancas is a very cool guy. But Julian is a very self-sufficient person. He worked as a bartender, just like everyone else worked.

I had this relationship with the Mona Lisa painting and I thought it was important to look further. In a time that was very masculine, Leonardo da Vinci took a feminist approach.

I hate to sound jaded, but everything else has become routine and a business - that's what the music industry has become to me - and I have to remind myself that creating is a privilege.

When we got signed, I lent my parents money, because they were broke.

When I was younger I had my problems, and one of the hardest things I had to come to terms with was that I had to believe in something that contradicted what I was doing. I had to genuflect... I had to confess what I thought were sins, but not really sins, but what some people thought were sins.

I think that quiet lends itself to that kind of in-your-own-head introspection.

I'm really bad at pronunciation in Italian.

I think that music is cyclical, and that trends happen and happen again.

We don't have the big-band mentality. We never wanted to become a big band.

Maybe we'll never reach that perfect zenith you imagine in your dreams, but I sure as hell will die trying.

Two people, no matter how close, cannot be one person, ever.

I feel sorry that maybe there are some people out there that think our integrity is a little spoiled because we have a bigger fanbase now, but what can you do?

Actually, we've never invested much attention in press.

I mean regardless of what kind of success we have, this is one of the most gratifying things in the world - to work with your friends, and make good music, by our standards.

We have no intention of being the fashion kings they're trying to make us out to be.

When you live in a house in L.A., you feel so isolated. You urge yourself to go and find the nooks and crannies where people are having a good time.

We discovered there were three very specific ways of being in the Strokes. One was in the studio, one was in the face of the media and the other was playing shows.

I'm very grateful for being in this band, but there are only five people who know what it's like to be in the Strokes. I'm part of 'them,' but I can see people trying to separate me out from the band's reputation.