Albert Hammond, Jr.

If I have an audience, I'd like to make music for my whole life. But it's not really up to me. ”

I feel like you listen your whole life, so when you are in the studio, your references are all the songs and music that you know. It just depends on where the songs are going and what attracts you at the moment. ”

I would like to leave the world a better place than when I entered it. I would hope that by the time I die I could have learned from the years of living and hand something down. ”

When starting a project, your influences are the things around you. It doesn't mean you have to sound like it or look like it or anything. It's just something new, and your curiosity becomes enthralled by it. ”

Ties were always my thing. When I was 18, on Sunday, when everyone was taking off for a casual day, I'd wear a suit to go have brunch. ”

It's so funny because when I talk about fashion and menswear designers, it's really like a small percentage of my head. I don't mind talking about it, but I always worry that it's gonna seem to the outside world that that's all I think about. ”

Little moments of excitement shape the sound of a record. You don't have anything, and then you start to have little parts that give you the energy to move forward because you start to see something. ”

When I'm not on the road, I try to intake about 300 grams of protein a day, which is a lot. I got really into how your body absorbs it and how you feel and how crazy it is when you intake that much food and actually feel better, your brain works better, and you actually lose weight even though you're eating more. It's so methodical. ”

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

When you put on music, just feel it; it's a different sense. I walk around with music in, and it can just change my world in seconds. ”