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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.

Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's a language aside from the language they have with strangers. I've always been maybe an abuser of alliteration, but I've always loved it and I like how those words sound together.

From Ben Gibbard

Living this life in the same sorta way that Kerouac lived, you get to hang out at shows and drink and you're able to not really face reality and adulthood the way most of my friends are.

From Ben Gibbard

To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didn't sign to Atlantic just for the money.

From Ben Gibbard

It's like, how do you continue to make records that are representative of who you are that your fans will recognize as your band, while still trying to push things forward and present new sounds for people.

From Ben Gibbard

You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.

From Ben Gibbard

We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record kind of reveal itself to us over time.

From 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 play. I can honestly say I had more fun and felt more inspired on this record than anything that we had done in a long time.

From Ben Gibbard

I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.

From Ben Gibbard

I love bummer songs.

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