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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
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Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
New York City
New York
Julian Fernando Casablancas
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I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.
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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 it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.
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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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I over-think stuff a lot.
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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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Kids are always honest, 'cause they don't think they're ever going to die.
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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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I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.
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A band is a great way to destroy a friendship, and a tour's a great way to destroy a band.
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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 a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.
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That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.
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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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The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.
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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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Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.
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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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