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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
Unexpected
Solutions
Simple
Often
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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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The British press can be so annoying. They jerk you off with one hand and smack you with the other.
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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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Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!
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I over-think stuff a lot.
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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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Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?
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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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Forgive them even if they are not sorry
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It was 100,000 years before we figured out what to do with fire. Imagine cavemen, sitting in front of a fire, eating raw meat for 100 thousand years.
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If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.
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Kids are always honest, 'cause they don't think they're ever going to die.
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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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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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It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
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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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Birth is a beautiful thing.
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But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.
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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 mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.
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