Quotes by Julian Casablancas

About Julian Casablancas:

Julian Fernando Casablancas is an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He is the lead vocalist of the rock band The Strokes. In addition to his work with The Strokes, Casablancas has led a solo career during the band's hiatus, releasing the album Phrazes for the Young on November 3, 2009.
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I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.

Julian Casablancas

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

Julian 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.'

Julian Casablancas

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

Julian Casablancas

I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.

Julian Casablancas

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.

Julian Casablancas

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

Julian Casablancas

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.

Julian Casablancas

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

Julian Casablancas

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

Julian Casablancas

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

Julian Casablancas

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

Julian Casablancas

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

Julian Casablancas

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

Julian Casablancas

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

Julian 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.

Julian Casablancas

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

Julian Casablancas

New York is in my soul.

Julian 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.

Julian Casablancas

If the choice is between doing something supercool 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.

Julian Casablancas

Whenever I go to shows, I end up looking at what shoes the guy onstage is wearing and the jacket he's got on. And when you know everything's gonna be under scrutiny, it makes you feel more comfortable if you have cool stuff.

Julian Casablancas

Author Bio

  • NameJulian Casablancas
  • Descriptionlead singer and frontman for The Strokes
  • BornAugust 23, 1978
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger; Songwriter; Singer-songwriter