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
When you connect as many memories to your geography as I have, and then you see that geography change around you, you're… — 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
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
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
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
I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun. I hit 70 one time… — 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 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
To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didn't sign to Atlantic just for the money. — 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
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
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
To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didnt sign to Atlantic just for the money. — 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
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
You look back at a time you idealize now and you only remember the good stuff. You tell the stories about 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
I read 'On The Road' in college. I was 18 or 19, and I had a particular quarter where I was taking… — 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
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
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
People always talk about how time flies; it's become sort of a colloquialism now. You don't really understand it until you reach… — 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
