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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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Julian Casablancas
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: August 23
Musician
Recording Artist
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Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
New York City
New York
Julian Fernando Casablancas
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I'm just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don't want him to feel too entitled.
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I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.
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I over-think stuff a lot.
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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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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'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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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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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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That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.
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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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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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Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
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No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.
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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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If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.
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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.
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My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.
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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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Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien people there had a lot of money.
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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
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