Julian Casablancas Quotes

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

There are so many little places I want to play, sometimes weird places I think would be fun to play... a bar that's half full.

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

No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.

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

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 think I used to do everything and then people had a problem with that within the band, so we're doing more of a communal thing.

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

I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.

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'.

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

But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.

Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.

The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.

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

I over-think stuff a lot.

If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.

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.

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

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

Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.