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Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

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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I guess the best thing about marriage is the fact you've got the coolest partner you can imagine by your side for all the things you're going to face in your life. So far, Juliet's been there for me. She's been good for my voice, good for my everything.
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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 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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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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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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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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It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
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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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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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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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Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!
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With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?
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Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.
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A band is a good way to break up a friendship.
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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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Birth is a beautiful thing.
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If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.
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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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I think you can only get closer to satisfaction but you never fully arrive.
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