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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
When you spend your whole life traveling it does get really tedious and exhausting. — Hamilton Leithauser Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
When I got to L.A. I woke up and I was losing my voice because of the dry air. It was like, "Oh my… — Hamilton Leithauser Copy Share
You look back and see pictures of yourself, or hear an old song, and you know where that came from or why you were… — Hamilton Leithauser Copy Share
