54 Quotes by Albert Hammond, Jr.

My personality can be extreme in all ways, even in positive ways; I've learned that.

Guided By Voices was huge when I was 16. Then I got into the Beatles, then classical music, Beethoven.

When you write songs, you're writing little bits here, little bits there.

I feel like that's what being creative is: It's you bouncing with emotion and what you capture in those bounces. Accept where you are and use it.

I feel like I always describe myself as a late bloomer. My first album, in my mind, was that I had a few songs I needed to take from incomplete demos to working with someone else and finishing them.

I grew up with The Beatles, Bob Marley and Talking Heads. I like the melody-with-rhythm aspect of music - there's so much to discover still.

If I worked as a waiter, I'd go home and write songs and record them. I'd have to. It's the only thing I know how to do. It's the only thing I can do.

I'll write lines or words in a notepad. You work on little things and little parts; sometimes they turn into bigger songs.

The Strokes, you bond when you're 18, and you're friends. The feeling's different. When all of us get into a room, we feel like the same people from before. We weren't anybody; we were just hanging out. It's hard to understand if you're not in a band. You're one-fifth.