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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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Julian Casablancas
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: August 23
Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
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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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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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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 don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.
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I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.
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Don't you dare get to the top and not know what to do.
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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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A band is a great way to destroy a friendship, and a tour's a great way to destroy a band.
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Birth is a beautiful thing.
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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 think you can only get closer to satisfaction but you never fully arrive.
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Forgive them even if they are not sorry
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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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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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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
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The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.
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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 over-think stuff a lot.
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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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