In music you don't punch out at the end of the day.
I have no discretion when it comes to airing things.
I'm very grateful for being in this band, but there are only five people who know what it's like to be in the Strokes. I'm part of 'them,' but I can see people trying to separate me out from the band's reputation.
We're geeks that wear the clothes we've been wearing for the past five to ten years.
We have no intention of being the fashion kings they're trying to make us out to be.
For the record, we are very fun-loving guys.
Two people, no matter how close, cannot be one person, ever.
Nah, I don't play golf.
Actually, we've never invested much attention in press.
We just wanted to make a really good second album.
We could be playing a 10-person room or a 1500-person room, and if the crowd is reacting well, it doesn't matter what size it is. You still feel the buzz, you dig?
The 'Room On Fire' tour was us parodying ourselves. It was almost comical when I look back at it. We were really living off the fruits of our hard work and self-destructing.
I had this relationship with the Mona Lisa painting and I thought it was important to look further. In a time that was very masculine, Leonardo da Vinci took a feminist approach.
When I was younger I had my problems, and one of the hardest things I had to come to terms with was that I had to believe in something that contradicted what I was doing. I had to genuflect... I had to confess what I thought were sins, but not really sins, but what some people thought were sins.
I love the Australian fans.
It's a difficult thing to stamp your songs with a label, to stamp your record with a theme. Often times that compromises what you're doing.
Our music was, like, Doors-y, but trying to be classical. We all took music classes and tried writing songs, and when we put them together they were this crazy amalgam of insane ideas that we thought was really cool.
We would play in this little room in my houseand my parents would bang on the walls: 'Stop playing so loud!'