Colin Meloy

You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk…

— Colin Meloy

And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages…

— Colin Meloy

“Sometimes, when the world is falling apart around you, all that's left to do is dance, right?”

— Colin Meloy

My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a…

— Colin Meloy

“Prue felt like someone had bored a hole in her stomach the size of a basketball”

— Colin Meloy

An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.

— Colin Meloy

“There's as much benefit to wishing the world away as there is in demanding a bud to bloom," responded Iphigenia as she…

— Colin Meloy

I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it.

— Colin Meloy

No-one wants to hear anything spoken in earnest anymore, unless it happens to involve unrequited, teenage love.

— Colin Meloy

Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics.

— Colin Meloy

All instruments sound fantastic in a church.

— Colin Meloy

“My dear Prue, we are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain.…

— Colin Meloy

When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you…

— Colin Meloy

If Broadway musicals were as popular as they were in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, then people like Sufjan Stevens and Iron…

— Colin Meloy

I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it. It has…

— Colin Meloy

Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting.

— Colin Meloy

When everybody is playing at the same level, there's so much more noise. And there's less incentive for the people who should…

— Colin Meloy

It's hard for us to talk about how we disdain file-sharing when in fact it probably has been a great resource for…

— Colin Meloy

I have a conflicted relationship with musicals, because I think the music itself can be so horrendous. It's an industry that relies…

— Colin Meloy

There's a little less pressure in doing a solo tour, in some ways a simpler setup. A little bit more relaxed. But…

— Colin Meloy

I pretty much draw the line when people want you to do original music for commercials.

— Colin Meloy

Early on I was a lot more unsure of myself on stage. When our band The Decemberists was getting bigger audiences I…

— Colin Meloy

One thing about hanging out with a baby is that you can remember a little bit better what it was like to…

— Colin Meloy

There's some things there that you just have to draw the line. Some people are just not going to like it. We…

— Colin Meloy

I'd rather have a strong career, playing and selling records to a loyal audience, then having one record that exploded. That would…

— Colin Meloy