Casablancas: "I over-think stuff a lot."

Casablancas: "Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer."

Casablancas: "One of the big songwriting things for me has always been: always think what you do sucks. Because the second you stop believing that, you suck. And that's a fact."

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

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

Casablancas: "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."

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

Casablancas: "I have to say, I'm good with gifts. If I find something perfect for a certain person, I'll just get it and put it away in a kind of nook under my bed - a little gift hutch, if you prefer."

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

Casablancas: "In most cultures, you can have a kid at 18 and it's not a big thing. It's not like, 'Oh, you've got to get a different haircut and move to the suburbs and act, like, 35.'"

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

Casablancas: "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."

Casablancas: "I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising."

Casablancas: "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."

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

Casablancas: "If the choice is between doing something super cool 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."

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

Casablancas: "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."

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

Casablancas: "Desire is individual. Happiness is common."

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

Casablancas: "I find it funny how people from Boston and New York hate each other because of pro teams. But, like, everyone on the Red Sox is a random millionaire athlete from somewhere else."

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

Casablancas: "Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense."

Casablancas: "When the Strokes first started playing gigs, instead of getting into a costume for the shows, we talked about how we should dress every day, in real life, like we're playing onstage. I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence. Or maybe helps you pick up chicks."

Casablancas: "A band is a good way to break up a friendship."

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

Casablancas: "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."

Casablancas: "The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected."

Casablancas: "It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me."

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

[How Julian discovered the scientific phenomenon known as 'tanning']

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