I think I used to do everything and then people had a problem with that within the band, so we're doing more of a communal thing.

I didn't want people to say 'Okay this is his weird abstract thing' and dismiss the album. Solo work
His first solo album Phrazes for the Young (inspired by the Oscar Wilde book "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young") was released on November 2 in the UK and November 3 2009 in the United States. He discussed his new influences by saying "I would've gone weirder with the music but I wanted to be smart.

Julian Fernando Casablancas (born August 23 1978) is an American musician singer songwriter and frontman of The Strokes.