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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.

From Albert Hammond, Jr.

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.

From Albert Hammond, Jr.

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.

From Albert Hammond, Jr.

Things that excite me are these four different bands: Wire, with a song called 'Champs,' Misfits, with a song called 'Hybrid Moments,' R. Stevie Moore, and Wipers 'Wait A Minute.'

From Albert Hammond, Jr.

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

From Albert Hammond, Jr.

I just looked like there was only one thing I could do: be in a band. It looked like I was already successful, basically. Which is what I wanted to do when I was 16. I just felt like if you did that, aesthetically you would just draw people who were doing the same thing.

From Albert Hammond, Jr.

After boarding school in Switzerland, at, like, 14 or 15, my life clicked, and I just realized, 'I don't want to be like anyone around me at my school. I don't think the world revolves around money.'

From Albert Hammond, Jr.

That's the purpose of creative stuff: when you really love what you do, you have to know at some point, or points, you're not going to be good at it. That's just the process of learning. I can edit it and try to be as perfect as I can, but I'm still going to have my vulnerable spots and my weaknesses.

From Albert Hammond, Jr.

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

From Albert Hammond, Jr.

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.

From Albert Hammond, Jr.

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