An ex-girlfriend once got upset when I told her that music is the most important thing in my life. It's more important… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
We all pine for a time in life when things were simpler. Even when they weren't necessarily simpler, hindsight makes them look… — 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
I have always been very open and earnest about some things in my life, some things that are not directly in my… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
I want so badly to believe that there is truth, that love is real. And I want life in every word to… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could've taken. I don't think about this with… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
What we aspired to in 1998, we have wildly surpassed. And I know we all feel incredibly grateful and lucky this band… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don't feel the… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
Because of my age and what I do for a living and the amount of time that I've spent away from my… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
There's a cinematic quality that happens in my mind when I hear something that really lands. An album is just a journal… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
Living this life in the same sorta way that Kerouac lived, you get to hang out at shows and drink and you're… — 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
There were a lot of fences and walls existing in my life, literally and figuratively, and that was really not indicative of… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 albums older… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
