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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.

Ben Gibbard

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
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
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
I can remember sitting up in guitarist Chris Walla’s bedroom and for the first time in my life having this realization like, “Maybe I can do this. Maybe I can make music that in some capacity people will enjoy and come see me play.”
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Bedroom Capacity People Realization Some
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
Bands who are in their early 20s today, they are living in their own time and they have a series of parameters they have to work around.
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Advice Giving Real
There’s a cinematic quality that happens in my mind when I hear something that really lands. An album is just a journal of a life moving through time.
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Land Mind Moving
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
I just rediscovered my guitar.
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Guitar Life Rediscover
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
Liking interesting things doesn’t make you interesting.
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Interesting Liking Things
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
We would scoff at the idea of a nice studio. “Why would you want to go to a nice studio? Oh wow, they have really expensive gear. Ooh, that’s really fancy. Well we’ve got an eight-track. We’ve got it going on here.”
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Eight Expensive Fancy Studio
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
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

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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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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