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I think all of Manhattan has pretty much become a bar-slash-nightclub-slash-restaurant. There were always pockets of that. But now every corner of Manhattan is that.

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Think, Pretty, Always, Manhattan

The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone.

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Kind, It Is What It Is, Manhattan

I always reference 'Mad Max' when I think about what I want to wear. But it's a fine line between that and 'Edward Scissorhands'.

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Think, Always, I Think, Max

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

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Feel, Like, Felt, Boarding School

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.

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Doing, Think, I Think, Communal

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.

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Wake Up, Songwriting, Like, Traps

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.

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Hours, Tricks, Vortex, Vacation

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

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Things, Ways, Hundred, Why Not

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

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Common, Sense, Easily, Common Sense

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

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Greed, Injustice, Current, Inventor

I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.

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Enjoy, Songwriting, Improvising

I'm always writing something. I've got so much stuff, I don't know what to do with it. Some of it will be Strokes, some of it will be I don't know what - stuff for pop singers. TV themes. I've got a jar stuffed with songs, all these ideas that are just me humming into a recording device.

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Some, TV, Recording, Humming

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

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My Life, Like, Often, Sweater

It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

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Like, Songs, Wake, Flow

When the Strokes first started playing gigs, instead of getting into a costume for the shows, we talked about how we should dress every day, in real life, like we're playing onstage. I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence. Or maybe helps you pick up chicks.

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Dress, Every Day, Maybe, Costume

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.

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Night, Think, Very, Terrors

Birth is a beautiful thing.

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Beautiful, Birth, Thing, Beautiful Thing

No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.

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Leaves, Ashamed, Unless, Old Friend

No matter who I'm talking to, I always talk like I'm doing an interview.

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Doing, Always, Like, Interview

In most cultures, you can have a kid at 18 and it's not a big thing. It's not like, 'Oh, you've got to get a different haircut and move to the suburbs and act, like, 35.'

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Big, Move, Suburbs, Haircut

I am a fan of 'SNL' and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too.

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Big, Fan, SNL, Jimmy

For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is going outside of The Strokes and The Strokes filtering process.

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Process, Everyone, Strokes, Filtering

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.

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Love, Give, Entitled, Encouragement

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

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Focus, Song, Double, Pop Song

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.

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Best, Feel, I Feel Like, Excitement

If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.

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Start, You, Dies

Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!

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Making, Like, Everybody, Being Pregnant

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.

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Think, Big, Some, Hear

One of the big songwriting things for me has always been: always think what you do sucks. Because the second you stop believing that, you suck. And that's a fact.

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Think, Big, Always, Suck

The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.

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Desire, Had, Whole, Solo

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