Early Quote by Ben Gibbard

When I listen to and play the songs from 'Narrow Stairs' now, that record feels like a record where we had established a style…

— Ben Gibbard

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

The narrative songs were well-written, like an article in The New Yorker. They're nice and pat. They're more like I'm just showing I can…

— Stephen Malkmus

If there is one thing I think I have accomplished, it's that I always thought of myself as a very literal songwriter, and as…

— Ben Gibbard

I feel like I kind of earned my stripes working with The Stereotypes. It was maybe my 6th songwriting session I've ever been to,…

— Kim Petras

I had deeper, more reflective songs on the first album.

— Bubba Sparxxx

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of…

— Kate Bush

I was able to notice in a very early stage, there were discrepancies between the people who are writing the songs and discrepancies about…

— Owen Pallett

With some songs, I have written narratives or I've tried to carry it through, but generally the things that were more genius, as far…

— Stephen Malkmus

I've always been a little more narrative, a little more linear, a little more direct. People instantly want to classify that as something retro.…

— Taylor Goldsmith

As a songwriter, I was really into pulling away from the melodrama and the overdramatic type of writing that I was previously always doing.…

— Katie Stelmanis

When I was writing my autobiography, these songs came up from time to time which were important to me, and I realized that what…

— Greg Lake