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I think you can only get closer to satisfaction but you never fully arrive.

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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
Think
Thinking
Arrive
Closer
Satisfaction
Fully
Never

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It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
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Don't you dare get to the top and not know what to do.
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I over-think stuff a lot.
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Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.
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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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The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.
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With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?
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I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.
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But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.
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A band is a good way to break up a friendship.
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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 am a fan of 'SNL' and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too.
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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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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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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 think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.
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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'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 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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Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?
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