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L.A.'s kind of, like, seven really cool towns. It's so laid-back. If you go in the right spot, you can walk around, and you don't need a car.

You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.

The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes.

A band is a great way to destroy a friendship, and a tour's a great way to destroy a band.

I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.

There are so many little places I want to play, sometimes weird places I think would be fun to play ... a bar that's half full.

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'.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

The problem with touring isn't the traveling and the shows, it's the vegetal state you get into.

New York is in my soul.

I'd like to just get to a point where maybe we can say something that will be matterful. That's definitely not a word, by the way.

Birth is a beautiful thing.

Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.

No matter who I'm talking to, I always talk like I'm doing an interview.

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.

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.

I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.

I always want to make Strokes records and play Strokes shows.

Just slow it down enough to enjoy the ride.

I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.

I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.

Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.

It find it funny how people from Boston and New York hate each other because of pro teams.

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

Don't you dare get to the top and not know what to do.

No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.

With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?

That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

I am a fan of 'SNL' and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too.

People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.

Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.

Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

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.

Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!

The British press can be so annoying. They jerk you off with one hand and smack you with the other.

We're so quick to point out our own flaws in others.

Forgive them even if they are not sorry

People are always arguing: New York or L.A.? They're both great places, you know.

I think I used to do everything and then people had a problem with that within the band, so we're doing more of a communal thing.

Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

Compared to people in Africa, I think we've all had privileged upbringings.

I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.

Kids are always honest, 'cause they don't think they're ever going to die.

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.

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

A band is a good way to break up a friendship.

But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.

The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.

The way Lou Reed wrote and sang about drugs and sex, about the people around him - it was so matter-of-fact,

The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents that are art.

Working on music is the funnest thing for me, and I love it, and I could do it all day, all night.

I'm really grateful. But I never had the rock star dream. I thought it would be cool to be a modern-day composer.

Make sure your heart is singing right until the day it stops.

The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.

If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.