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It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

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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 think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.
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That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.
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Don't you dare get to the top and not know what to do.
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With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?
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I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.
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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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The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.
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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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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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I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.
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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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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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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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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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Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.
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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 think you can only get closer to satisfaction but you never fully arrive.
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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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Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?
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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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