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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.

Ben Gibbard

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
The second ‘Postal Service’ album is threatening to become the ‘Chinese Democracy’ of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won’t.
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Chinese Indie Rock Rocks
I want so badly to believe that there is truth, that love is real. And I want life in every word to the extent that it’s absurd.
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Believe Love Real
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
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
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
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
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
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’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
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
We were playing Chinese restaurants and basements and record stores and houses. We were crashing on floors and it was all new and exciting. It was like a vacation. It didn’t feel like work.
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Basement Exciting House Record Restaurant Vacation
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
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
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
I just rediscovered my guitar.
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Guitar Life Rediscover

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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