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

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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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My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.
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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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But it can be hard to experiment when you're in 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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The British press can be so annoying. They jerk you off with one hand and smack you with the other.
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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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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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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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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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No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.
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I over-think stuff a lot.
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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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The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.
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Birth is a beautiful thing.
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I am a fan of 'SNL' and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too.
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If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.
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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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Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
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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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