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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
Recording Artist
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Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
New York City
New York
Julian Fernando Casablancas
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I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.
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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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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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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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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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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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Birth is a beautiful thing.
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Kids are always honest, 'cause they don't think they're ever going to die.
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Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
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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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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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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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I guess the best thing about marriage is the fact you've got the coolest partner you can imagine by your side for all the things you're going to face in your life. So far, Juliet's been there for me. She's been good for my voice, good for my everything.
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I am a fan of 'SNL' and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too.
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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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But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.
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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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A band is a good way to break up a friendship.
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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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