Julian Casablancas
Julian Casablancas
Julian Fernando Casablancas is an American 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth23 August 1978
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
play records want
I always want to make Strokes records and play Strokes shows.
slow-motion enjoy songwriting
I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.
race people generations
I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really good people leave clues that help feed the human race. That's my aspiration.
way
I'd like to just get to a point where maybe we can say something that will be matterful. That's definitely not a word, by the way.
mean eye thinking
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.
winning wish wish-you
Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?
people would-be want
I feel like I've given up a lot of my fantasies. I just want to do things differently, and to a lot of people that's annoying. I like weird stuff. I always hoped if we had a big success it would be on our own terms…
alcohol needs site
I don’t shake at the site of alcohol anymore. I don’t feel the need for it. If anything I’ll get stoned. I always told myself if it got to the point that it was affecting my songwriting and music that I’d stop. And it did get to the point.
years fire cavemen
It was 100,000 years before we figured out what to do with fire. Imagine cavemen, sitting in front of a fire, eating raw meat for 100 thousand years.
fun thinking play
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.
guitar cheesy keyboards
That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.
beautiful birth beautiful-things
Birth is a beautiful thing.
thinking manhattan pockets
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.
thinking people creative
I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.