Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.
The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.
If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.
Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.
I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.
I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.
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.
Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.
I am a fan of 'SNL' and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too.
No matter who I'm talking to, I always talk like I'm doing an interview.
Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?
With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?
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.
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.
Birth is a beautiful thing.
My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.
The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes.
