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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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With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?
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A band is a good way to break up a friendship.
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Kids are always honest, 'cause they don't think they're ever going to die.
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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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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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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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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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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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Forgive them even if they are not sorry
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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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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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The only goal right now that I can have, the only thing I can offer right now, is the need to get good at music, do something with quality.
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No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.
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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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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 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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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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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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That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.
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