Julian Casablancas People Quotations

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

I find it funny how people from Boston and New York hate each other because of pro teams. But, like, everyone on the Red Sox is a random millionaire athlete from somewhere else.

I would prefer it if people thought that I didn't work hard, that I just played the guitar for three minutes a week and was like, 'Check out this song - what do you think?' That would be ideal. I would prefer telling people that I'm just truly talented.

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 don't care what people think or what they expected. It's what (critics) said, not us.

People are always arguing: New York or L.A.? They're both great places, you know.

I think I used to do everything and then people had a problem with that within the band, so we're doing more of a communal thing.

I think it's sort of a scary thing you don't really want to face. I definitely feel like we had to do something special (with the new record) or people potentially really wouldn't care about us.

The sizes seem right. It's pretty much as big as you get without feeling detached or too far away from the people at the back of the audience. It's as big as you get while still involving the last row - isn't that what you look for in a venue? Hopefully they just have a great time. Hopefully it's just a great show. Whatever that does to different people, whether it's blowing your mind or just making you have a good time that night.

Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.

People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.

People are always arguing: New York or L.A.? They're both great places, you know.

A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it's the best form to receive it. There's genuine excitement from people. I feel like we've stepped up a level.

You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.

The way Lou Reed wrote and sang about drugs and sex, about the people around him — it was so matter-of-fact,

Compared to people in Africa, I think we've all had privileged upbringings.

I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.

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…

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.