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My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.

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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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Alone
Separated
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Eight
Parents
Grew

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If you're in a bar and a certain song comes on and the vibe is just different, it evokes the kinds of things that you want to feel, and if music can do that it's a very special thing.
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The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.
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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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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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That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.
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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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The way Lou Reed wrote and sang about drugs and sex, about the people around him - it was so matter-of-fact.
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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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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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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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Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.
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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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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'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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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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