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I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.

Julian Casablancas

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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
Lazy
Illusion
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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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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 mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.
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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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With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?
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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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The British press can be so annoying. They jerk you off with one hand and smack you with the other.
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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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Don't you dare get to the top and not know what to do.
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That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.
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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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Kids are always honest, 'cause they don't think they're ever going to die.
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No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.
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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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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 thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.
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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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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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My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.
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