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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
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Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
New York City
New York
Julian Fernando Casablancas
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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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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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If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.
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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 over-think stuff a lot.
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With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?
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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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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 don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.
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Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?
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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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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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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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My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.
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Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
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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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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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That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.
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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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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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