Quotes from Julian Casablancas

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

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.

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

I'm always writing something. I've got so much stuff, I don't know what to do with it. Some of it will be Strokes, some of it will be I don't know what - stuff for pop singers. TV themes. I've got a jar stuffed with songs, all these ideas that are just me humming into a recording device.

When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've finished recording it, you're sick of it.

I would prefer it if people thought that I didn't work hard, that I just played the guitar for three minutes a week and was like, 'Check out this song - what do you think?' That would be ideal. I would prefer telling people that I'm just truly talented.

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

I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.

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.

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.

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

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.

Working on music is the funnest thing for me, and I love it, and I could do it all day, all night.

No matter who I'm talking to, I always talk like I'm doing an interview.

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

Religion is never the problem it's the people who use it to gain power.

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

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.

I find it funny how people from Boston and New York hate each other because of pro teams. But, like, everyone on the Red Sox is a random millionaire athlete from somewhere else.

The problem with touring isn't the traveling and the shows, it's the vegetal state you get into.

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

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

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

If you're in a bar and a certain song comes on and the vibe is just different, it evokes the kinds of things that you want to feel, and if music can do that it's a very special thing.