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“The polarity of Mitch Mitchell and Moe Tucker offers a pretty good understanding of what a drummer's role is.”
“I think that music is cyclical, and that trends happen and happen again.”
“We give ourselves enough free time to work on music and also to get royally happy.”
“I would rather play a club show, just because it tends to make a much livelier show. You can connect with people when it's a smaller crowd.”
“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.”
“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?”
“We try to make air-tight, intricate songs with melodies and counter-melodies and rhythms that work together, and we try to make it as palatable as possible - something that's not difficult to listen to.”
“We do the press because we know logically it influences how we are perceived, but we don't pay attention to it after the fact.”
“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.”
“We just wanted to make a really good second album.”
“It got to the point where I was like, 'Are we the new face of rock 'n'roll?' But that's a bad place to be, and when you find yourself there you have to desensitize yourself.”
“I think we have done all that we can do to make the music we want to make, and hopefully people will like it, and if they don't, so be it.”
“There's a way that mirrors can be portals towards vanity, but there are also ways they can be portals towards self-reflection and understanding.”
“We were ambitious. The several levels of Dante's inferno that we had to go through emotionally within the band to be able to stick to it, was crazy. That's ambition.”
“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.”
“Even though the mainstream doesn't recognize garage as much or as prevalently as those crazy huge bands, garage does get the privilege of being looked upon as something that's cool even by people that don't understand it.”
“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.”
“For the record, we are very fun-loving guys.”
“I don't spend much time reading our own press.”
“The hype got people to recognize us, and we appreciate that, but we don't invest much attention or credit to the hype. Because when we do, at any moment, whoever is giving that hype can take it away just as easily... and then we're lost.”