Nick: "Yeah, I mean, I had facial reconstruction. I said, make me look like Cher!" (he then sings loudly Do You Believe in Life After Love)
06/08/03 - 06/14/03
Albert: "Nowadays there really is no melody you can hum to songs except in extreme pop. We play melodious rock. And our beat and rhythm gives it balls."
06/01/03 - 06/07/03
Nikolai: "By the time we left Radio CIty, we were pretty toasty. We had to retire a little early. We did a little too much too fast."
05/25/03 - 05/31/03
Julian: "I love New York. The only thing is, when you're here, you constantly feel like you've got to get out. Human evolution didn't mean for people to be in a city like this all the time. You get so fucking aggressive about everything. You want to fight all the time, because you're so pissed off with people living on top of you."
05/18/03 - 05/24/03
Fab: "We're all very happy being sons of people who have worked hard and given us opportunities that a lot of people haven't had. But we're not extra-super-privileged kids. When we got signed, I lent my parents money because they were broke."
05/11/09 - 05/17/03
Strokes: “We shared some ideas. All obsessed with fame, says we're all the same. Oh, I don't see it that way. I don't see it that way.”
05/04/03 - 05/10/03
Nick: “We're extremely close, and what we do together now is what we've always done. In terms of drinking, getting high, doing drugs, looking for girls. We're not totally whacked out, though. We like to party, but we like work, too.”
04/27/03 - 05/03/03
Fab: "We eventually got up to a boom-bastic blowout. These shows were really important to us. They were ours." (About two shows performed in NYC)
04/20/03 - 04/26/03
Julian: "We are not here to save rock n roll! Please quote us on that. We're not going to change your life, and the way everyone is idealizing our arrival on the scene is ridiculous."
04/13/03 - 04/19/03
Albert: "Julian hit him. He wouldn't normally. He's the last guy who would, but they were making us do this thing and we hadn't been told [about it]. They lied to us and we really didn't want to do it." (On one of Julian’s fights)
04/06/03 - 04/12/03
Strokes: "Life seems unreal. Can we go back to your place? You drink too much, makes me drink just the same."
03/30/03 - 04/05/03
Nikolai: "Big dicks! Nah. In New York there's loads of bands that are as good, you know…" (on what the Strokes have that other bands don't)
03/23/03 - 03/29/03
Fab: "I'm a really, really bad packer. Usually when I get to the country I'm visiting, it's like 'Damn, I forgot this and I forgot that.' So, I'd probably do a horrible job. 'Where the hell is the toothbrush? Goddammit.'"
03/16/03 - 03/22/03
Nick: "I was sitting in a bar the other day, and some girl said to me, 'Do people actually come to your shows or is it just people from magazines?' That was pretty funny."
03/09/03 - 03/15/03
Julian: "The idea of lip syncing to songs on a film just seems retarded to me."
03/02/03 - 03/08/03
Julian: "When I was probably 13 or 14, my brother bought me a Velvet Underground CD, and I just loved it."
02/23/03 - 03/01/03
Fab: "Every time we play I feel like kissing everyone in the crowd and going home and partying with them. There's just a vibe in the room, an energy."
02/16/03 - 02/22/03
Strokes: "Oh, baby don't care no more. I know this for sure, I'm walking out that door."
02/09/03 - 02/15/03
Nick: "We still sucked for at least a year after Albert came in. But then it slowly became something decent. Then it became something good. And now it's on its way to being something great, I think, without wishing to come off like a cocky bastard."
02/02/03 - 02/0803
Albert: "Gimmicks don't last. They're great to boost you up fast, but then they go away."
01/26/03 - 02/01/03
Fab: "These last few months have been dreamlike. It's been like an injection in the butt and we've just been riding this weird wave ever since, but we just want to keep on making great music."
01/19/03 - 01/25/03
Nikolai: "Backstage when we were playing in Oxford, we were just about to eat. Then we were told, 'Oh yeah, Radiohead are coming tonight'. We lost our appetite immediately and found it very nerve-wracking."
01/12/03 - 01/18/03
Strokes: "And I'll be there, he says then he walks outs. Somehow he was tryin to hard to be like them."
01/05/03 - 01/11/03
Julian: "I was punished all the time. I had to wake up at six in the morning to jog around the school. I'd get caught for smoking or whatever. It sucked. There were a lot of Turkish people there. They were nice, but you know... they all wore Versace jeans. It was the biggest culture shock of my life." (about his stay at a Swiss boarding school)
12/29/02 - 01/04/03
Strokes: "I just want to misbehave. I just want to be your slave. You ain't never had nothin' I wanted, but I want it all. I just can't figure out nothin'."
12/22/02 - 12/28/02
Julian: "When I hear Bob Marley, I realize how much we suck."
12/15/02 - 12/21/02
Albert: "I don't like to compare our music to other bands, but to describe it in words, I would say things like, beautiful aggression, tension with waves going up and down."