More times than not, it's a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those… — 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
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
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
You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of… — 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
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
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
Anything was better than going to work. All those early tours before we made any money were more like vacations. I don't… — 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 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
