I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person - and I fail.

New York is in my soul.

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

I’m not a pop song lyric writer. I can’t just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.

A band is a great way to destroy a friendship, and a tour’s a great way to destroy a band.

I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what’s going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person, and I fail.

I don’t really care about clothes, but it’s about wearing something that gives you social confidence.

Art is the image of life, it’s purpose simply to enhance it.

Don’t you dare get to the top and not know what to do.

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