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.
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'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 always want to make Strokes records and play Strokes shows.
You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.
The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes.
People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.
Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.
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.
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.
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.
