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
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
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 remember hoping there'd be 10 people at a show in 1998 when there was an incredible write-up in the local weekly.… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
It's like, how do you continue to make records that are representative of who you are that your fans will recognize as… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It's a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive… — 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
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
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
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
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
If you tell certain people that you like Kerouac, they assume that's all you read, like you don't know anything else about… — 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 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
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
