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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 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'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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The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.
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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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I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.
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If you're in a bar and a certain song comes on and the vibe is just different, it evokes the kinds of things that you want to feel, and if music can do that it's a very special thing.
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I over-think stuff a lot.
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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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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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Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
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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 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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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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I think you can only get closer to satisfaction but you never fully arrive.
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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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The only goal right now that I can have, the only thing I can offer right now, is the need to get good at music, do something with quality.
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Birth is a beautiful thing.
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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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