Interviewer: (in the middle of interviewing Julian, answers mobile) “Hello?”

Albert: “It’s Albert, is Julian there?”

Interviewer: “Yeah. He doesn’t have his own phone?”

Albert: “No. I’m at the video store. Can you just ask him if he wants to watch Fletch tonight?”

(source: nme.com)
The best part of the night is after the show. You get this natural high from playing in front of all those people. We’ve been playing these songs for so long now that there’s rarely something that makes me unhappy. It almost always goes well and you’re on this high that’s hard to explain. It’s a powerful high like heroin or something and it stays with you until you go to bed. From midnight to five in the morning is the best part of the day.
Albert Hammond Jr
I love the band, I love the songs Julian writes. I love working on them. I’ve learned so much from every band member. So it’s nothing weird.
Albert Hammond Jr
Roy Orbison was the best one, man. I’m such a huge fan of his, but at the time I was too young to fully get it. I was pestering my dad, like, ‘How long you going to be in the studio for, man? Come on, let’s go out!’ Sometimes - he sighs - you look back and you wanna kick your own ass.
Albert Hammond Jr on his fathers’ collaborators and clients habit of dropping by
  • Albert Hammond: He called me from university and said he had to choose between school and the band, and I said, 'The choice is made, it's the band.'
  • Albert Hammond Jr smiles: It's his fault anyway. You told me all those stories.
  • Albert Hammond nods: Many stories. One of my first gigs was in a strip club in Morocco: 22 beautiful women stripping all around me and me singing Johnny Cash songs. I was 16. I'd tell him stories like that. I guess I wasn't too surprised when he said he wanted to play guitar.
The weird thing is, I used to skate in front of, like, 5,000 people and I was never nervous, but the first time I got on stage, there were four people there and I vomited.
Albert Hammond Jr
People assume that you lead a socialite life like Paris Hilton, but when I was 15, I was at home, getting stoned and playing music with my friends. I was a dork. I think people assume I was driving around in a Ferrari.
Albert Hammond Jr on having a famous dad
On the bus after the show Albert made his specialty signature dish: Toasted Sombreros. Nick and Fab ate those bad boys right up, too. Everyone watched episode after episode of the David Chapelle show which the band’s agent had sent out to the band as part of a care package for the bus. It was a three hour drive and I fell asleep in my bunk. When I woke up at the hotel in Houston Nick and Fab were sleeping contentedly – Nick on the sofa in the front lounge, Fab on the floor. Like full cats.
Richard Priest (via ohsweet-nuthin)

Source: paleknuckles

  • Nick: Yeah! We were friends before we were in a band. We partied before we were in a band. Who else would you want to travel around with?
  • Albert: David Bowie?