The great thing is that when you hire string players you always get really great players. I don't know why that is.
Hamilton LeithauserI 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 LeithauserI write songs now I look at my strengths and I start there. In The Walkmen, we'd start with the live stuff.
Hamilton LeithauserWhen 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