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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.

Julian Casablancas

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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
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Heroin
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I over-think stuff a lot.
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I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.
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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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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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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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The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.
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It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
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Don't you dare get to the top and not know what to do.
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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
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