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Julian Casablancas
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: August 23
Musician
Recording Artist
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Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
New York City
New York
Julian Fernando Casablancas
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Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?
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It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
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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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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.
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I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.
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The British press can be so annoying. They jerk you off with one hand and smack you with the other.
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When I hear Sam Cooke's 'A Change Is Gonna Come', it frustrates me because no matter how hard I try, I can never be that good.
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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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But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.
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The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.
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The way Lou Reed wrote and sang about drugs and sex, about the people around him - it was so matter-of-fact.
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I'm really grateful. But I never had the rock star dream. I thought it would be cool to be a modern-day composer.
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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 don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.
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You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.
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The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.
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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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I think you can only get closer to satisfaction but you never fully arrive.
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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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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.
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