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I feel like there’s a lot of beauty in the darkness of ‘Narrow Stairs,’ but that’s not really a place I’m ready to go to for a while. I’m interested in taking a different approach and having the next record be different in tone – I’m just not interested in making another dark, dark album.

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There are the people that are like, “I want it to sound like the last one.” 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.
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Everybody Life Like People Please
I wonder what I was thinking when I was trying to say a particular thing. I hear some of the weird little nuances in the recording; I can hear what the room sounded like. I remember what it smelled like.
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Hear Remember Room Smell Weird Wonder
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
I think sometimes a narrative can come out of a single word.
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Narrative Sometimes Thinking
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.
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Habit Starting Want
I’d like the songs to be more storytelling, but also have the turns of phrase within them that would hopefully distance my writing from the pack.
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Distance Hopefully Song Storytelling
I don’t hear it now the way I did when I was 20. I think it is undeniable that the songs have become more instantaneously descriptive and literal.
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Descriptive Life Literal Now Undeniable
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
Every record we do there are always two camps. There’s the camp that’s like, “I love it. It sounds different than the last one.”
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Healthy People Thinking
When I listen to Airplanes record, it takes me back. I remember a lot of my thought processes when I was 20 or 21, writing those songs and recording that record.
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Airplane Song Writing
Death Cab is a militantly analog band. We’ll continue moving forward with our sound, but there will be no crossover.
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Band Moving Sound
I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn’t get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don’t even want.
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Finding Growth Jobs Yourself
You remember that stuff and laugh about it now. You don’t feel it the way you did back then when you were so scared and nervous and tired and hungry.
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Back Hungry Laugh Nervous Remember Tired
I’ve always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He’s a great vocalist.
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Great Spots Vocalist
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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