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Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

Julian Casablancas

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Julian Casablancas
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: August 23
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
New York City
New York
Julian Fernando Casablancas
Common
Happiness
Happy
Desire
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I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.
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My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.
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I guess the best thing about marriage is the fact you've got the coolest partner you can imagine by your side for all the things you're going to face in your life. So far, Juliet's been there for me. She's been good for my voice, good for my everything.
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I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really good people leave clues that help feed the human race. That's my aspiration.
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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.
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I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.
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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.
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Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?
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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.
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Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!
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That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.
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Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.
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With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?
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I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.
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It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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I feel slightly confused about certain things. Practical and tactical things. When you try to make everyone happy… in the end you've got to make yourself happy.
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