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The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.
Julian Casablancas
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Julian Casablancas
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: August 23
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Singer-Songwriter
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New York City
New York
Julian Fernando Casablancas
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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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My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.
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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 don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.
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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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Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien people there had a lot of money.
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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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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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But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.
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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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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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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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I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.
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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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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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Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.
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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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