Ben Gibbard

I don't want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best…

— Ben Gibbard

We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to…

— Ben Gibbard

When I'm old, I'd like to wake up in the morning and not really do anything - just be happy to exist.…

— Ben Gibbard

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

At some point, I thought that, as I got older, I'd come to terms with a lot of things. I'd solve some…

— Ben Gibbard

The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're…

— Ben Gibbard

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

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…

— Ben Gibbard

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

I kind of dropped a lot of bad habits about three years ago and became kind of accidentally straight-edge. I don't have…

— Ben Gibbard

For 'Narrow Stairs', the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room…

— Ben Gibbard

I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist.

— Ben Gibbard

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

I think a lot of people who become music fans have that moment where they break from their parents' music, they break…

— Ben Gibbard

I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be so pretentious…

— Ben Gibbard

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

I would much rather hear a song that's written from a fresh perspective, using ideas that have existed in rock & roll…

— Ben Gibbard

I still love 'The Cure' more than almost any other band. But they were really, truly like the first band that I…

— Ben Gibbard

I have always been very open and earnest about some things in my life, some things that are not directly in my…

— Ben Gibbard

I want so badly to believe that there is truth, that love is real. And I want life in every word to…

— Ben Gibbard

Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's…

— Ben Gibbard

I always try to write the best song I can in the moment, and those songs are often going to end up…

— Ben Gibbard

When I listen to Airplanes record, it takes me back. I remember a lot of my thought processes when I was 20…

— Ben Gibbard

Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's…

— Ben Gibbard

As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.

— Ben Gibbard