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Death Cab is a militantly analog band. We’ll continue moving forward with our sound, but there will be no crossover.

Ben Gibbard

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 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
I don’t think I was doing anything poorly at that time, but I can certainly see how my writing has changed.
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Certainly Changed Think
I can remember how I sang – a little more nasal-y back then. Listening to those old recordings is like seeing a photograph of yourself from 10 years ago. You’re wearing what you thought looked cool at the time. You had your hair styled the particular way you thought looked cool.
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Cool Listening Mean Photograph Remember Year
The late ’90s were a really bad time for people trying to be rock stars, you know what I mean? It seemed like everyone was a one-hit wonder on the radio.
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Ambition Country Mean
Anything was better than going to work. All those early tours before we made any money were more like vacations. I don’t think it was until 2001 that we pulled our heads out of the sand and were like, “What are we doing?”
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Thinking Trying Vacation
Nada Surf and Harvey Danger are good bands. I think they’ve just stayed true to why they play music in the first place, it’s just because they love doing it and they love each other and that’s the impetus for doing it, not trying to keep singles on the radio and on MTV.
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Mtv Play Stay Thinking
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
Liking interesting things doesn’t make you interesting.
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Interesting Liking Things
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
The Photo Album is the weakest record. For the first time in our careers, we found ourselves with an economic incentive to be on the road and to be making albums.
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Cutting Home Real
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
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 think sometimes a narrative can come out of a single word.
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Narrative Sometimes Thinking
I’m a war of head versus heart, it’s always this way. My head is weak, my heart always speaks, before I know what it will say.
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Heart Love War
I don’t want to be overly dramatic and say it’s the only thing that gets me up and keeps me going. But people in your life come and go.
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Come Going Keep People

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