My goal as a songwriter now is to simply write some memorable turns of phrase. — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
I think that the wonderful thing about music and about songs is that you can listen to a three-minute song whenever you… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
It's trippy to think we have an album that's 10 years old. It's even trippier to think we have a couple of… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
Death Cab is a militantly analog band. We'll continue moving forward with our sound, but there will be no crossover. — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
When we moved to Seattle, everybody kind of disappeared into different corners of the city and it was a very difficult time… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
I've written a lot of songs in the last couple years, but writing a lot of songs doesn't always mean writing good… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
I don't spend my time perusing message boards to find out what people think about me or if people think my songs… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
If you're going through a difficult time, and there's a piece of music that speaks to you - be it musically or… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
I always try to write the best song I can in the moment, and those songs are often going to end up… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
I would much rather hear a song that's written from a fresh perspective, using ideas that have existed in rock & roll… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be so pretentious… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
Nada Surf and Harvey Danger are good bands. I think they've just stayed true to why they play music in the first… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
For me, a song doesn't really take flight until it has a lyric on it. ...Without a lyric that I'm happy with,… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
Every record we do there are always two camps. There's the camp that's like, "I love it. It sounds different than the… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
If there is one thing I think I have accomplished, it's that I always thought of myself as a very literal songwriter,… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
I take things a little bit more critically now, like, "What did I think I was saying in that song? What is… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
The late '90s were a really bad time for people trying to be rock stars, you know what I mean? It seemed… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
Bands who are in their early 20s today, they are living in their own time and they have a series of parameters… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
When I listen to Airplanes record, it takes me back. I remember a lot of my thought processes when I was 20… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
Keeping fans loyal is a delicate balance. Therein lies the challenge for any band that's more than a couple albums deep. It's… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
I don't feel that all the great songs have been written. I do feel that where we are now, certainly with rock… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
I think the narratives on 'Trans,' 'Plans,' and 'Narrow Stairs' moved away from the way I wrote on the first couple of… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
I decided a handful of years ago that I just want to write songs that you can understand as soon as you… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
When I listen to and play the songs from 'Narrow Stairs' now, that record feels like a record where we had established… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
I still love 'The Cure' more than almost any other band. But they were really, truly like the first band that I… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
For 'Narrow Stairs', the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
Death Cab always gets right of first refusal on everything I write, but I tend to know early on. There's a song… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's something incredibly musically… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
Our band is very polarizing. There are people who absolutely can't stand us, and people who absolutely can't live without us. I'd… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
The Photo Album is the weakest record. For the first time in our careers, we found ourselves with an economic incentive to… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
I don't want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me. — Ben Gibbard Copy Share
We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share
When I'm old, I'd like to wake up in the morning and not really do anything - just be happy to exist. I'd like… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share
An ex-girlfriend once got upset when I told her that music is the most important thing in my life. It's more important than anyone… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share
At some point, I thought that, as I got older, I'd come to terms with a lot of things. I'd solve some big problems,… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share
The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share
When you connect as many memories to your geography as I have, and then you see that geography change around you, you're forced to… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share
It's trippy to think we have an album that's 10 years old. It's even trippier to think we have a couple of albums older… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share
We all pine for a time in life when things were simpler. Even when they weren't necessarily simpler, hindsight makes them look a lot… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share
I kind of dropped a lot of bad habits about three years ago and became kind of accidentally straight-edge. I don't have Xs on… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share
For 'Narrow Stairs', the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room and just… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share
More times than not, it's a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those failed endeavors. — Ben Gibbard Copy Share
I think a lot of people who become music fans have that moment where they break from their parents' music, they break from the… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share
I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be so pretentious to say… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share
