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I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.

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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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Perfectionist
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Kids are always honest, 'cause they don't think they're ever going to die.
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Forgive them even if they are not sorry
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Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
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My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.
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Don't you dare get to the top and not know what to do.
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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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That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.
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Now, the good of business is put above anything else, as corporations have become the new ruling body. Most decisions seem to be made like ones of a medieval king: whatever makes profit while ignoring and repressing the truth about whatever suffering it may cause (like pop music, for that matter).
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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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Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!
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But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.
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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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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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