“After boarding school in Switzerland, at, like, 14 or 15, my life clic...” — Albert Hammond Quote

“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.'”

“I actually use women's perfume - I have since I was a kid. It's called Anais Anais, from Rachael. It smells like a beautiful woman and a bouquet of flowers. I use that and Right Guard deodorant.”

“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.”

“My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.”

“I was born in Brooklyn, delivered by a Chinese doctor on a table in a boarding house on Sept. 23, 1920.”

“Our house was like a girls' boarding school. We were always fighting for each other's clothes.”