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.

Forgive them even if they are not sorry

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.

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

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

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

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

Make sure your heart is singing right until the day it stops.

The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents that are art.

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

Why, when men hate themselves, it’s women who take the beatings.

Peace of being makes the soul prosper.

If you look at it, life is like one big series of lessons, that starts the moment we are born.

We have to define future worlds by imagining them first together.Otherwise, we will deal with no man's lands and potential conflicts.

Women are complicated. We all know that.

When one theory is simpler than its competitor, this fact is relevant to saying what the world is like.

There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.

The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.

Camp is always all business.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.