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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.

Ben Gibbard

Between every record, we all split off in our own world and we all end up listening to usually pretty different music on our own. We come together not really knowing what the other people having been really listening to and what’s been influencing them.
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Listening People Together
And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.
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Father Prayer Tiny
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
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
We wanted to be like R.E.M., but the reality is that 15 years after R.E.M. was putting out those records, the playing field had changed drastically as well.
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Change Drastically Record Well
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
We had friends who had a hit single on the radio and sold 500,000 records, and then they couldn’t get arrested a year later.
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Friend Later Records Single Sold
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
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
You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It’s a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive act of writing with other self-destructive acts. I certainly was one of those people for a long time.
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Long Self Writing
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 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
We were not goofing around anymore. We all threw everything we had into this in a way where we all found ourselves really far from home, and we were stuck with each other.
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Anymore Each Other Goofing Ourselves
I’ve always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He’s a great vocalist.
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Great Spots Vocalist
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
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

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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