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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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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 am a fan of 'SNL' and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too.
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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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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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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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My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.
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Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?
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I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.
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I think you can only get closer to satisfaction but you never fully arrive.
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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 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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Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.
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Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?
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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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But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.
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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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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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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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That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.
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