147 Quotes by Julian Casablancas

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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).

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

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.