Latest Hamilton Leithauser Quotes from Interviews

• You're always trying to find new stuff and new inspiration. If you don't really push and you don't try something that feels exciting, then it's not worth doing.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Inspiration, Always Trying, Stuff

  "The Walkmen". Interview With Mike Carriere, pitchfork.com. November 25, 2008.

• When I finally got to 30, I'll admit that there was a little anxiety, but at the same time I actually really liked it.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Anxiety, Littles

  "The Walkmen". Interview With Mike Carriere, pitchfork.com. November 25, 2008.

• I think I got interested in singing without being too over-the-top. I was more calmly singing the words - which I thought had really come a long way. I thought they were worth singing clearly.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Thinking, Long, Singing

  "The Walkmen". Interview With Mike Carriere, pitchfork.com. November 25, 2008.

• I never want to travel while I'm on vacation anymore. The only vacations I want to take now are ones where I just go and sit somewhere.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Vacation, Want, Want To Travel

  "The Walkmen". Interview With Mike Carriere, pitchfork.com. November 25, 2008.

• When you're in your twenties you always think that 30 is a long ways off, and maybe you'll have things in line when you hit that number - maybe own a house or be married.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Thinking, Numbers, Long

  "The Walkmen". Interview With Mike Carriere, pitchfork.com. November 25, 2008.

• When you spend your whole life traveling it does get really tedious and exhausting.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Doe, Get Real, Whole Life

  "The Walkmen". Interview With Mike Carriere, pitchfork.com. November 25, 2008.

• Traveling makes a vacation lose all appeal. You would never want to take the family to a European city. You travel a lot, but it's a job.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Jobs, Vacation, Cities

  "Listen: New Walkmen: 'Heaven'". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. April 16, 2012.

• You feel like half of your life is a vacation when you go to these Barcelona music festivals and have all day to sound check or go to the pool.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Vacation, Sound, Half

  "Listen: New Walkmen: 'Heaven'". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. April 16, 2012.

• Everyone in Seattle is a total pussy when it comes to snow. The whole city shut down, the place looked like an apocalyptic movie.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Cities, Snow, Pussy

  "Listen: New Walkmen: 'Heaven'". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. April 16, 2012.

• You look back and see pictures of yourself, or hear an old song, and you know where that came from or why you were working on that - but you don't want to do that again. You don't necessarily hate it, but you're a very different person now, so, in that way you do.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Song, Hate, Different

  "Listen: New Walkmen: 'Heaven'". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. April 16, 2012.

• I used to put the vocals on top and piece it together. Now I start with the vocals and the string parts I write; the drums are kind of an afterthought. And who knows, maybe that will get boring, but right now that's the most interesting way for me.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Writing, Interesting, Together

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The funny thing is that the studio that we recorded in was the same studio that Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby and Nat King Cole used to warm up their voices in before they went across the street to CBS Radio. The owner has preserved it exactly the way it was in 1925. It was such a perfect coincidence that we were doing music inspired by that stuff in that room. It was incredible.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Kings, Funny Things, Voice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I write songs now I look at my strengths and I start there. In The Walkmen, we'd start with the live stuff.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Song, Writing, Looks

  "Hamilton Leithauser Gets By With a Little Help". Interview with Aly Comingore, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2014.

• I feel really personally connected to all of the songs, so stepping back is really hard.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Song, Stepping Back, Feels

  "Hamilton Leithauser Gets By With a Little Help". Interview with Aly Comingore, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2014.

• I felt like I could get away with calling it Black Hours. That could easily be the most depressing record ever written, but because there is this sense of fun throughout the whole thing I felt like I could get away with it. Like "5 A.M."; that song's in a minor key and I'm just wailing away and it could have been just wallowing depression, but it's not.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Song, Depressing, Fun

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Ironically, I like working with people.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I really don't feel as connected to Heaven as I do to the ones where I was there from start to finish. And on this record I was there for every moment.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Heaven, Records, Moments

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I was writing music when we finished the last Walkmen record, Heaven, and a few of these songs may have even been started before Heaven was done. With The Walkmen we all wrote a lot of stuff alone, but then we'd start collaborating with each other.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Song, Writing, Heaven

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When we got to the step when we'd normally start collaborating, we started having these talks about how it was not worth getting together. Getting together just didn't feel very inspired, and doing it alone did.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Together, Steps, Inspired

  "Hamilton Leithauser Gets By With a Little Help". Interview with Aly Comingore, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2014.

• The great thing is that when you hire string players you always get really great players. I don't know why that is.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Player, Strings, Get Real

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm always writing music. I sort of do it obsessively, for good or for bad. It's good that it keeps me going, but it's bad because it really is sort of like an obsession where you can't stop sometimes and it'll keep you up at night and ruin your weekend.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Writing, Weekend, Night

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm really not into the idea of just faking songs with a synthesizer. That just isn't the music I'm making at all.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Song, Ideas, Synthesizers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I was staying at my friend's house and he told me about the drug Prednisone. It took me 14 years to discover it. And there are a lot of times that would have helped me out over the years. I can't believe I'd never even heard of it, though.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Believe, Years, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• My friends just kept joking about all the horrible physical side effects [of Prednisone ]. I can only imagine that something that works that well has got to be bad for you.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Sides, Imagine, Side Effects

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The first ones I played were in New York at Joe's Pub; I played four shows, but I did something like 30 interviews and a couple radio shows in the mornings and completely blew out my voice. It kind of sucked.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Morning, New York, Couple

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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