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…

— 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.…

— 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…

— Hamilton Leithauser

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Hamilton Leithauser

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

— Hamilton Leithauser

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

When I got to L.A. I woke up and I was losing my voice because of the dry air. It was like,…

— Hamilton Leithauser

You look back and see pictures of yourself, or hear an old song, and you know where that came from or why…

— Hamilton Leithauser

Traveling makes a vacation lose all appeal. You would never want to take the family to a European city. You travel a…

— Hamilton Leithauser

I never want to travel while I'm on vacation anymore. The only vacations I want to take now are ones where I…

— Hamilton Leithauser

I'm always writing music. I sort of do it obsessively, for good or for bad. It's good that it keeps me going,…

— Hamilton Leithauser

I felt like I could get away with calling it Black Hours. That could easily be the most depressing record ever written,…

— Hamilton Leithauser

The funny thing is that the studio that we recorded in was the same studio that Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby and…

— Hamilton Leithauser

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

— Hamilton Leithauser

My friends just kept joking about all the horrible physical side effects [of Prednisone ]. I can only imagine that something that…

— Hamilton Leithauser

Ironically, I like working with people.

— Hamilton Leithauser

I think I got interested in singing without being too over-the-top. I was more calmly singing the words - which I thought…

— Hamilton Leithauser

The first ones I played were in New York at Joe's Pub; I played four shows, but I did something like 30…

— Hamilton Leithauser