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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.

Ben Gibbard

And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.
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Father Prayer Tiny
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
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’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 feel like on those older records there are a lot of attempts at clever turns of phrase.
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Attempts Clever Older Record The Phrase
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
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.
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Girlfriend Language Wife
We had cut ourselves free from the security of day-job life. The goals became primarily financial, at least for a while. That was the roughest time we had ever had as a band, because that was the first moment we realized that this was for real.
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Band Lease Life Primarily Security
Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There’s something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them.
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Group Musical Song
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
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
I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late ’50s, early ’60s kind of world.
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Kind Late World
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
Liking interesting things doesn’t make you interesting.
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Interesting Liking Things
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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Beauty Dark Next Tone
I kind of dropped a lot of bad habits about three years ago and became kind of accidentally straight-edge. I don’t have Xs on my hands, but I guess if I wanted to go back to calling myself straight-edge, I could.
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Habit Kind Running
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
More times than not, it’s a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those failed endeavors.
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Needs Thinking Writing
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
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
As a songwriter, I’m not necessarily writing about myself or my life.
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Life Myself Songwriters 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
To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didnt sign to Atlantic just for the money.
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God Knows Money Records
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
There were a lot of fences and walls existing in my life, literally and figuratively, and that was really not indicative of the kind of person that I’d always been. So, when I moved back to Seattle, the first thing I said was, “I will never live in fear again.”
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Firsts Kind Wall
Now that we have the resources, we’re like, “Oh wow, a nice studio is pretty nice! They do have nice outboards here. It’s actually a pretty good place.” It’s funny how much changes so quickly.
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Change Outboard Quickly
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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