People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.
The problem with touring isn't the traveling and the shows, it's the vegetal state you get into.
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.
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.
I am a fan of 'SNL' and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too.
It find it funny how people from Boston and New York hate each other because of pro teams.
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.
I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.
When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've finished recording it, you're sick of it.
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.
I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.
The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes.
New York is in my soul.
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.
Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.
You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.
People are always arguing: New York or L.A.? They're both great places, you know.
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.
No matter who I'm talking to, I always talk like I'm doing an interview.
Birth is a beautiful thing.
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.
I always want to make Strokes records and play Strokes shows.
The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.
I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.
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.
Compared to people in Africa, I think we've all had privileged upbringings.
Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.
I think all of Manhattan has pretty much become a bar-slash-nightclub-slash-restaurant. There were always pockets of that. But now every corner of Manhattan is that.
I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.
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'.
