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 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
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
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
Between every record, we all split off in our own world and we all end up listening to usually pretty different music… — 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
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
I think a lot of people who become music fans have that moment where they break from their parents' music, they break… — 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… — 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
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 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
