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Don't you dare get to the top and not know what to do.

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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 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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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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My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.
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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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Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.
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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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Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
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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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Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien people there had a lot of money.
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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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Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.
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It's like an inner struggle for me, between saying I don't give a **** and trying to make it work. You want to do the right thing, but I'm sick of people thinking I'm difficult.
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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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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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But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.
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I over-think stuff a lot.
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With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?
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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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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
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