Julian Casablancas Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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 very often have night terrors. Just think of the worst possible situation, and it's a regular thing for me. I've died in my sleep twenty-three different ways.”

“I would prefer it if people thought that I didn't work hard, that I just played the guitar for three minutes a week and was like, 'Check out this song - what do you think?' That would be ideal. I would prefer telling people that I'm just truly talented.”

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

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

“I'm always writing something. I've got so much stuff, I don't know what to do with it. Some of it will be Strokes, some of it will be I don't know what - stuff for pop singers. TV themes. I've got a jar stuffed with songs, all these ideas that are just me humming into a recording device.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone.”