- Filho, o que queres fazer da vida?
E eu respondi-lhes:
- Tudo, exceto ser espectador.

                                    Gonçalo M. Tavares

One can say many things about the history of the world—except that it is rational. Give man every earthly blessing, satisfy his every desire, quench his slightest thirst, and he would still destroy what he has—just to prove his freedom.
— F. Dostoyevsky
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
— E.E. Cummings

Julian, if you could pick three people not in The Strokes to join you on stage, dead or alive, who would you want?

They’re already in my band.

I’ll scratch your back and you knife mine.
— John Lennon