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I over-think stuff a lot.

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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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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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I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.
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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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Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien people there had a lot of money.
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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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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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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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But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.
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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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Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?
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It's like an inner struggle for me, between saying I don't give a **** and trying to make it work. You want to do the right thing, but I'm sick of people thinking I'm difficult.
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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 best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.
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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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Working on music is the funnest thing for me, and I love it, and I could do it all day, all night.
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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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A band is a good way to break up a friendship.
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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 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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My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.
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