Julian Casablancas

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

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.

With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?

I don't want to get into autobiographies; I don't want to talk about myself.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

I think the long interview has an important life.