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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.

Julian Casablancas

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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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But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.
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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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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 over-think stuff a lot.
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Don't you dare get to the top and not know what to do.
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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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If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.
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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 am a fan of 'SNL' and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too.
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With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?
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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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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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My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.
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No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.
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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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The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.
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I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.
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