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Bands who are in their early 20s today, they are living in their own time and they have a series of parameters they have to work around.

Ben Gibbard

I couldn’t wait to go on tour back then. I would be sitting at my day job or my apartment, just itching to go. There were so many adventures that were about to happen.
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Adventure Apartment Back Happen Tour
Because of my age and what I do for a living and the amount of time that I’ve spent away from my family and loved ones.
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Age Darkness Fun
The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you’re listening to the song because they’re so seamless and clever.
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Clever Numbers Song
As a songwriter, I’m not necessarily writing about myself or my life.
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Life Myself Songwriters Writing
Bands who are in their early 20s today, they are living in their own time and they have a series of parameters they have to work around.
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Advice Giving Real
We always idealize the past because we don’t feel the painful stuff the way we used to.
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Feel Idealize Painful Way
Around that same time I started running. I never saw myself as the kind of person who would become a runner. It seemed unfathomable to me that I would ever run three miles, let alone 26.2.
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Around Miles Myself Runner Started
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.
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Explore Kind Record Trying
As you go through your life, you make friendships, you break friendships, you have relationships. Music is the one thing I’ve always been able to rely on.
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Friendship Make Relationship
I’m not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun.
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Baseball Gun Player
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 I look at some of those older records.
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Clever Distance Song
There’s a cinematic quality that happens in my mind when I hear something that really lands. An album is just a journal of a life moving through time.
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Land Mind Moving
I’m starting to relate more to the late-period Kerouac stuff in the way that I once related to the fun and excitement of the early material. There’s a darkness inside of me that I’m only now starting to come to grips with and accept. And it’s starting to scare me.
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Darkness Early Inside Material
There were two recording studios in Bellingham. One was really expensive, a “nice studio.” We were at the point where we were young and irreverent.
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Expensive Irreverent Nice Youth
I don’t think Chris realized he was in a band until 2001. He all of a sudden woke up one day and realized he was in a band. He thought he was just recording my solo project. Three albums later, we’re in Baltimore trying to figure out what to do with ourselves.
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Album Project Realized Sudden Think
An ex-girlfriend once got upset when I told her that music is the most important thing in my life. It’s more important than anyone else could ever be.
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Girlfriend People Upset

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