Calling Quotes by Hamilton Leithauser

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

I was writing music when we finished the last Walkmen record, Heaven, and a few of these songs may have even been started before…

— Hamilton Leithauser

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…

— Hamilton Leithauser

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

— Hamilton Leithauser

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.…

— Hamilton Leithauser

You feel like half of your life is a vacation when you go to these Barcelona music festivals and have all day to sound…

— Hamilton Leithauser

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…

— Hamilton Leithauser

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

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

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…

— Hamilton Leithauser

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…

— Hamilton Leithauser

I used to put the vocals on top and piece it together. Now I start with the vocals and the string parts I write;…

— Hamilton Leithauser