I over-think stuff a lot.
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.
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.
I am a fan of ‘SNL’ and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too.
The British press can be so annoying. They jerk you off with one hand and smack you with the other.
Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?
I always want to make Strokes records and play Strokes shows.
I enjoy songwriting. It’s slow-motion improvising.
Sometimes I’ve sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.
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.
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.
A band is a great way to destroy a friendship, and a tour’s a great way to destroy a band.
Working on music is the funnest thing for me, and I love it, and I could do it all day, all night.
Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!
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.
I mean, I guess you could say I’m a bit of a perfectionist.
For a long time I didn’t want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is going outside of The Strokes and The Strokes filtering process.
The Strokes can play anything. They could play ‘Thriller,’ and it would just sound like ‘Thriller’ as played by the Strokes.
That it’s a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.