Julian Casablancas - Interview (Part 1)

From July 2001 in Copenhagen.

[@blueberries408]

The feeling that he mentions is the feeling that I get for everyone of their songs. Sometimes it takes a few listens to get it, but it always comes. Man, is it the best whenever it does though. The Strokes are so fucking amazing and I can't even begin to comprehend it. I'm happy that that was their goal because they certainly have achieved it!

[@Deathcabforeli]

Well said man

[@amandafavela7992]

No like same i had to listen to their music a few times like non stop to COMPLETELY fall in love with their music and I’m so glad I did cause their music is THE BEST❤️

[@addison5865]

i was just about to say something like this, everytime i hear one of their songs it feels like the first time

[@lilalililiptonmorest1911]

So true

[@Confessionsovergin]

It's so cute how proud he looks when he says my mother was Miss Denmark. He has the greatest smile, I melt every-time I see it.

[@spinningelectrons]

Shit I can't stop myself from smiling when he smiles

[@brittanymaramoon5412]

Right. I would Have his babies in a heartbeat 😍😋

[@brittanymaramoon5412]

But he's married to a wonderful, lucky woman 🖤

[@paulaherrera3969]

Haha I was smiling when I read that

[@mungofinalfi4480]

@@brittanymaramoon5412 Not anymore, so maybe...Just maybe.

[@AmosBudmin]

"It's not like we have a political message or anything like that." And then he made Tyranny

[@ofrsilililala]

Aj Ledoux HA TRUE

[@kortazar27]

+Aj Ledoux By "then" you mean 13 years later...

[@RYBATUGA]

One of the best albums ever with a great message :)

[@RonilBhatiaMusic]

Yea like the other guy said 13 years later and also he didn't make that with the Strokes which is what he refers to when he says "we"

[@Lily-_-3]

Aj Ledoux he said the album is more about morality than politics though hmm

[@spinningelectrons]

WHY DOES HE HAVE TO BE SO COOL

[@majobenitez]

cececcececee why? There's no why

[@orlandomichael8456]

alcohol

[@sholonator92]

Cuz he is from NYC!

[@Sarasapien]

You think maybe because he has the default cloud of sadness always hanging over him?

[@TrueAlden]

@@Sarasapien no

[@scarlettf1]

He has such an amazing charm

[@wulingwei5]

💜👍:-)

[@karinablanchard9511]

I’d give anything to be in Copenhagen, going to a Strokes concert in the early 2000’s.

[@erickrodriguez6736]

I'd sell my eye

[@elliecrabbe]

I second that

[@dianajulissa2932]

@@elliecrabbe me three

[@sunoo_love923]

@@somewherestuckinl.a.3239 with your other eye

[@BOBSAGET-sn8ex]

When he said about that feeling when music hits u I get that when I listen to the strokes

[@rizzmag]

It’s that feeling when you hear your favorite song… that feeling whether you’re in a car or a party or alone at home in bed, and you hear the song and it hits you so strong… that’s sort of my favorite thing about music- Julian Casablancas OMG this is one of my favorite interviews!!!!

[@cstrongman]

This is probably before he became jaded with the music business, he still had a lot of hope about it. It's beautiful to see him so genuinely optimistic...

[@sorryimsosad]

You can tell this is when shit started taking off. The happiness on his face and tone of his voice is of a man whose dreams were coming true

[@ambarbarrios2697]

"we dont have a political message or anything" 12 years later he creates the Voidz

[@Luis333]

regarding what he wanted to accomplish with his music,you did it man. you fucking did it.

[@charlescross1500]

yaaasss

[@NEMA95]

bro... he is John Casablancas son... how can you not "do it" 😅

[@zaliareyes2733]

This is an amazing interview considering that Jules does not like to talk a lot in them... the interviewer seemed to have some troubles making up the questions (maybe he did not speak english) but Julian was so patient and considerate, he answered all the questions and even tried to help the interviewer through them. I really like it!

[@lionheartkid7]

julian casablancas is the most beautiful man in the universe

[@rajaah3412]

lionheartkid7 omg so true hahaha

[@paulaherrera3969]

YES

[@alexsandramurphy3006]

Agreed.

[@kibiannesporleder4109]

Could not agree more

[@thestrokesjfannb7541]

Estoy de acuerdo🎶

[@JB-os3yp]

I met Julian when he was 4 yrs old, I worked for his dads modeling agency Elite. I remember how much his dad talked about his son and how much he loved him:-)

[@PeloDePerro]

Here at 1:25 am. Amazed because Jules has changed so much. Now he write lyrics about politics and now he is an icon of rock music. Jules born to shine.

[@asdf52855]

when he talks about that feeling you get when you listen to amazing songs, i smiled cause i get that feeling with every strokes song and that's how i knew they were the best. that's my favorite thing about music too.

[@franciswattersband]

He mentioned that The Strokes aim was to make music that hits you hard and gets to you. Well they've very well succeeded and so has Julian Casablancas on his solo album. :)

[@97ros97]

When he talks about what he aims to achieve when he creates music how he wants it to catch attention and that brilliant feeling that gets inside you. thats what I feel like when I listen to their songs. Julian your mission is acomplished you made me feel like that ! Thank you

[@thestrokesjfannb7541]

X2 ,haces mi vida mejor🎶

[@googplusisawful1922]

hearing him speak Danish makes me want to learn Danish

[@danielavanessa2717]

googplus isawful me too I bought a dictionary at the library 😂

[@blackmice7]

@Anthony Jones 2:57

[@keilaniseventy7]

Mothers a model... Explains where he gets his looks... 😐💕❤️

[@danielavanessa2717]

Keilani Friday and his hight

[@wulingwei5]

💗📍

[@floraspooks6879]

He looks like his dad

[@alycatt709]

He’s gorgeous

[@rainybellamy6745]

He looks more like his father. And his father is also goodlooking

[@hkmrsrg1367]

musical genius. i never like a band quite as much as i like the strokes.

[@PCDisciple]

Sharp af. I just realized he was probably younger in that video than I am now. Wow...

[@ecamifna]

I don't think the ones where he's drunk are 'better'. He's more relaxed and less awkward, of course, that's probably why he drank in the first place, but it's in the sober interviews that you can see how he really is and sometimes even catch a glimpse of how his mind works. Watch the Brian Williams interview, for instance, or the amazing podcast he did this year with Har Mar Superstar.

[@Moonrisepower]

He seems so happy in this video... I like that..he's smiling genuinely and everything. Very different from most of his interviews. :)

[@JessTheSkank]

I could listen to this man talk all day.

[@dancingwithcalvin]

My favorite interview of him. This was him before he let the other members start writing.

[@StephanieLeMonstre]

I honestly agree what he says about how he feels about lyrics. When I listen to the song, its the beat, the vibe, the arrangement that makes me go oh man!

[@EminemKingOfRap1000]

hes so cute like omg

[@wulingwei5]

🎶

[@overdramaticgrandma]

I clicked on this vid for the hot Danish cousin quote but "It's not reallly hard, I mean our ablum hasn't come out yet yk and magazines, they make us seem like stars but you walk in the street and it's not like people are recognizing you. I think once the album comes out and people hear the music, is when I'll be interested in what the reaction is. Right now, I don't care. We put enough pressure on ourselves to keep getting better but I'm not worried about what journalists who are trying to sell magazines are writing." rlly hit hard and Julian is so cute and smiley in this interview

[@LALFAST]

As a dane I can say that he is cool as hell! Proud to have (half) the same nationality as Casablancas.

[@marceloduarte2620]

he was much more eloquent in his young days

[@edcuellar93]

Marcelo Duarte drugs n booze man

[@Voidzlover]

He is probably just tired of interviews at this point. His music speaks for him ❤️✨

[@lucy9500]

He's still very eloquent . you can hear it in his music . i believe he's just tired of them the interviews.. He also struggles with being himself infront of the camera and feels very awkward . he gets very quiet . but once the cameras are off he's himself and very talkative and eloquent . you can see this in videos of him meeting fans .

[@darkslivery-_-9096]

@@edcuellar93 he didn’t do drugs. He hates drugs. Just booze.

[@jub7345]

@@darkslivery-_-9096 ???

[@dnicoler92]

What a husky voice

[@GunsRockLover]

"yeah, are you male or female?"

[@killinglies93]

the bit where he is talking about his mam, aaaaaaaaaaw :) i love this interview, julian seems really nice and makes the most incredible music. plus he is bloody gorgeous ahaha.

[@talktal]

this interview was from 2001, he must have only been 23 then.

[@ThisMusicIsToogood]

An interview before Is This It? came out. Julian you certainly made songs that give me that feeling, my favourite album of all time. Thank you.

[@LNClubsTheaters]

Great interview with Julian!

[@wulingwei5]

.👍👍👍

[@Confessionsovergin]

"You want me to pick a cucumber out of the backyard"? Oh Julian, always so helpful..

[@Ashterrs]

Compare him in this interview he had the same age of Justin Bieber, and look how deep and the way he talk compared to Bieber, holy shit.

[@wulingwei5]

History at ny!

[@chris-tt6yp]

How old was he here

[@tristansilver9969]

What kind of fucking comment is this?

[@peteaxe2067]

@@tristansilver9969 why are you so mad lmao

[@plastic_cleopatra]

he studied in one of the most expensive school and grew up in a different time he's not gonna be the same as bieber.

[@StephanieLeMonstre]

I respect and love this man. He comes from a pure place, and I totally agree with what he says about the feeling of music.

[@abbyg7]

every morning on the drive to school i play only stokes songs. and then during school i get this reallly good feeling when i think about the music. like its really cool, i cant explain it. hahaha "hard to explain" but i mean i completely understand what he was saying in this interview about that feeling. i get it.

[@JuanMercado91]

It is interesting he says they don't have a political message. But Julien is such a great lyricist that his lyrics are vague enough to be interpreted in different ways. He says in another interview, "I can get greedy with meaning." I am listening to Is This It and a lot of it sounds like societal critique from a first person observation of life in all its different facets including romantic relationships. Not necessarily realizing what is going on just kind of saying what you see and only after realizing, "oh, this is fucked up." "Is This It?" Ya know?

[@Shhh9963]

sheesh

[@smallvillefan123]

that feeling he was talking about at 1:28 is exactly what i felt when I first heard heart in a cage, and became a huge fan of the strokes.

[@popsiclesuckers]

just imagine him talking dirty... in danish... oh god. *melts* this has to be my favorite of his interviews, hands down.

[@ros.667]

This interview gives me such joy but an overpowering amount of sorrow as well because in his later interviews, Julian seems absolutely dead inside. The industry really fucks with people sometimes.

[@Turdferguson90]

That's exactly how I feel when I hear their music. It hits you really deep in the soul. And he's easy on the eyes and ears, very cool personality

[@rapidzee]

haha, we all have the same feeling. the strokes music is just like omg! dude,every 24/7 i listen to the strokes. i kept mentioning about them. 2years non stop. fuckin love them~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@kbear233]

i feel an urge to shove my head into a blender now (in a good way)

[@R0SV3GAS]

Automatic Stop really gets stuck in my head.

[@roshlay]

Julian - the best music man i ever know

[@YuliPortillo]

Hermoso Jules (:

[@wulingwei5]

:-)

[@Confessionsovergin]

Handled that interview like a BOSS, especially the hype part..

[@hyderulez94]

Damn. I mean, i'm a guy and i agree he's hella good looking, but let's talk about something else besides that. xD Julian your voice is pimp dude! My favorite indie rock band

[@thestrokesjfannb7541]

Es la mejor y única 🎶

[@firef1yyy]

1:27 Songs like Someday, Is This It, The Modern Age. Such a feeling they give me.

[@sk84eva546]

Matthew Wynn and "When it started"

[@atomiz1stunner]

the way he describes hearing a FAV song and i get that FEELing in a lot of songs they have ,and hte more i listen the more i feel that .. thye are TRUELY making it into my top 10 of all time-- based on that feeling alone and here it is described in that way , and proves where their SOUND comes from... . . feel it "" (!#*_jyb))

[@jamesheath7601]

Him and The Strokes are so cool

[@rocknfootballarg2573]

❤❤❤i loveeeeeeeeeee himmmmmmmm

[@CaptainGalacticMusic]

JULIAN'S THE MAN!!!

[@dianajulissa2932]

I feel like a baby reading these comments from like 13-7 years ago and I'm like damn i'm that late :(

[@incubus1345]

explanation of the real feelings in sounds of music..

[@capucinefrenchgirl]

he's so amazing and clever, a real music genius THE STROKES FOREVER !!!!

[@psychedelity]

He is one special guy :)

[@SorenRingholm]

6:20 He´s talking about Roskilde Dyrskue, being born in that city, I´ve been to the same street markets, at the same time as Julian, cool to think about. Could be awesome if he got a summer-vacation home in Denmark, and used it to write music and just walk around and speak danish and chill.

[@dzydzy101]

the feeling he described was so accurate

[@sigiul100]

they have deff made there goal every song by them gives me that feeling

[@xOxCrapWeaselxOx]

Julian, i wish you never damaged yourself the way you did. You drank and took drugs and your body and soul suffered. You have so much talent. If only one last band could make another album and i could choose which, i would choose the strokes.

[@monicagarcia8812]

he is so hot

[@ginastripes]

Happy birthday julian!!!

[@synysterjazmyngates]

I like how you can hear every little noise he makes XD (maybe only with headphones)

[@bextheeartist]

i think he's my soulmate i can't say i love him because i don't personally know him but the way he is makes me infatuated.

[@lasfinisimas]

Sometimes on a show or something he seems really confident and in some point arrogant but underneath that stage persona it seems that there's a deep and shy guy...dont get me wrong I like both sides, he's awesome but I guess he's more like we see

[@phaedraremington6247]

Hey man, this is an old comment but how have you been? Hope you're well. Have a beautiful day.

[@rottenlove420]

@melfaery he's truly one of the nicest people you could meet. very humble. he's such a rockstar, i was pretty shaky when i met him but he couldn't have been nicer. he's so awesome and appreciative to his fans. he stood outside after his show in denver for almost 2 hours signing stuff, taking pictures and giving away hugs =)

[@melfaery]

@rottenlove420 Awww, that sounds amazing! I'm glad you got to meet him& I hope he never changes!

[@ReallifeUrk]

he usually seems dazed in interviews but in this one he is more articulate. i like jules though and the rest of the strokes

[@rast123456789]

I feel those when I hear there songs. No wonder!!

[@sushure5]

Julian nose como decirte lo mucho que te admiro te amo y te deseo. pero como sé que jamas te tendré solo quiero desearte que te vaya de lo mejor en la vida, seas delo mas feliz contu esposa y mucho exito en tu carrera como hasta ahora! by: tu mas grande admiradora=) (JAJA AYSI me emocione xD)

[@Acousticks]

"I like Denmark...such cool people... and hot girls too hehehe"

[@fanicitaav]

me encantassssssssssssss que chico para mas cool.....and yes he has a wonderful smile....i love you julian .....come to holland!!!! uajaja

[@dukicold]

OK he says a lot of "like", but who cares. He said what he meant and we all understood him. I mean "like" it's all "like" about "like" the music. And I must add that when I compare this video to the new ones he looks just the same. He hasn't aged at all. Still a cuty.

[@Antarctic1]

he's more vocal in this interview, maybe because it was 2001 and he was younger. anyway this is an excellent interview.

[@TyingRory]

I love Jules ._.

[@bigtonto0131]

1:13 - 1:45, that feeling basically describes is this it from start to finish

[@oliviabourne2888]

luv jules

[@just.a.bolivian.dude.1390]

Se puede ser tan cool?!??!!?!

[@rainybellamy6745]

2:56 I dont know what that evennmeans, but I want him to whisper it to my ear every night

[@rainybellamy6745]

Guilty as charged 😂😁

[@kiwi130190]

really love jules¡¡¡ he's so sweet, so gorgeus, sooo nice and i love what he said and his charming smile¡¡¡ whatta babe¡¡

[@mettebadock4346]

I live not far from Jyllinge where his grandparents live: cool if he comes by.. And Julian speaks Danish: very nice.

[@micolevi]

haha i do that too, and at school sometimes i also play a few songs u know when im alone, it just takes me away you know, to my own world. its awsome jaja. my own space. though sometimes i wish my friends where as into the strokes as I am

[@oceana3236]

I love him

[@kiMiAkx3]

u r so right!

[@madz220022]

JE LUI ADORE!

[@dillimeinbilli]

Sure you will, darling. Anyhow, related to the video. He's really adorable. He's funny and his laugh has this childlike genuineness [if thats a word]. I love how he describes what he feels about music.

[@crystalcastles91]

He was only 22 here. so young.

[@psychedelity]

@Greenstrokes15 wow same here, it freaked me out (in a good way) especially when he said that thing about the feeling you get when you listen to music - it made me realize that it wasnt just something I was imagining, its actually true :)

[@BornToBeWild747]

He loves him mom so much :)

[@ducebaggins676]

If you're Julian it is

[@IndiieeRockkerr]

I L

[@PamCourson74]

And i love him... :c