People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.
I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.
That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.
But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.
I always want to make Strokes records and play Strokes shows.
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.
L.A.'s kind of, like, seven really cool towns. It's so laid-back. If you go in the right spot, you can walk around, and you don't need a car.
I am a fan of 'SNL' and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too.
When I hear Sam Cooke's 'A Change Is Gonna Come', it frustrates me because no matter how hard I try, I can never be that good.
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.
I don’t shake at the site of alcohol anymore. I don’t feel the need for it. If anything I’ll get stoned. I always told myself if it got to the point that it was affecting my songwriting and music that I’d stop. And it did get to the point.
