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The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.

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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
Solutions
Simple
Often
Best
Unexpected

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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'.
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I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.
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That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.
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Forgive them even if they are not sorry
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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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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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Don't you dare get to the top and not know what to do.
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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
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A band is a great way to destroy a friendship, and a tour's a great way to destroy a band.
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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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Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?
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I over-think stuff a lot.
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I think you can only get closer to satisfaction but you never fully arrive.
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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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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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It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
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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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I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person, and I fail.
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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 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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