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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.
Julian Casablancas
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Julian Casablancas
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: August 23
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New York City
New York
Julian Fernando Casablancas
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My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.
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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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The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.
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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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I am a fan of 'SNL' and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too.
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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 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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Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!
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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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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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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
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A band is a good way to break up a friendship.
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It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
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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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Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.
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I over-think stuff a lot.
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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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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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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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But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.
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