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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.
Julian Casablancas
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Julian Casablancas
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: August 23
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New York City
New York
Julian Fernando Casablancas
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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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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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My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.
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I over-think stuff a lot.
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I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.
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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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I think you can only get closer to satisfaction but you never fully arrive.
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Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
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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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But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.
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Doing heroin is like walking around with a terrorist as your friend. It's like taking a terrorist around to parties You never know when it's going to blow up on you.
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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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The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.
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It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
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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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No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.
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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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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
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Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.
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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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