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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.

Julian Casablancas

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Julian Casablancas
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: August 23
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New York City
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I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.
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No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.
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Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?
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The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.
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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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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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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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Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!
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My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.
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That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.
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Birth is a beautiful thing.
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I over-think stuff a lot.
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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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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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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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The British press can be so annoying. They jerk you off with one hand and smack you with the other.
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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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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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