Dan Mangan

There's when a phrase circles in my head in a number of ways for any number of days, weeks, or months, and…

— Dan Mangan

When you put a halo on concepts - gender roles, religion, nationality or pride - or you put a halo on any…

— Dan Mangan

What frustrated us about the song [Robots] was not that it existed - we owe a lot to that song and have…

— Dan Mangan

If the point of good art is to be somewhat subtle then it's not going to catch everyone.

— Dan Mangan

You feel the weight of the world and you take things in and you are acting out from a place of being…

— Dan Mangan

I'm influenced in a million different ways by a million songs that I've heard and digested.

— Dan Mangan

I remember somebody saying, "I feel really bad for kids growing up around iPads right now. It's just too complicated. Life's too…

— Dan Mangan

More than anything, being an English major made me more appreciative of authors and what an incredible feat it is to just…

— Dan Mangan

If you make everything really on the nose so everyone knows exactly what you're talking about, it's often not as strong.

— Dan Mangan

I think the future and the past are equally hypothetical.

— Dan Mangan

I feel like songwriting changed from something that I liked doing to something that, I feel, is a very important outlet for…

— Dan Mangan

It's not supposed to make you distracted from your life, it's supposed to make you challenge the ongoing distraction with focused intention.…

— Dan Mangan

We talk about the past like it's the strangest dream. Then we repeat the things we never dreamed we'd do.

— Dan Mangan

The most rewarding possible thing that a songwriter or an artist of any kind can experience is to hear firsthand from the…

— Dan Mangan

I grew up with a rotary phone in my house and that seems a world away, but that's what I was used…

— Dan Mangan

I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.

— Dan Mangan

I had a rule that I would never force the muse in my younger days. I would follow the feeling. I would…

— Dan Mangan

I think books are just a great ticket to get you outside of yourself. You can not be you for a second…

— Dan Mangan

I think articulating things through song is a good way of letting people know that they're not alone.

— Dan Mangan

Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it.

— Dan Mangan

If I write about something that I've experienced and somebody goes, "Oh my God, I feel the exact same way," then both…

— Dan Mangan

When you ask my three year old if my iPhone is too complicated, it's not. It's all relative.

— Dan Mangan

That is a goal, to step out on stage and to actually be present. Honestly alive and present. Although, it doesn't always…

— Dan Mangan

I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other.

— Dan Mangan

There's going to be ups and downs and that you have to be okay with the downs too and embrace them just…

— Dan Mangan