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  • To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didnt sign to Atlantic just for the money.

  • 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, 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. 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. I feel like on those older records there are a lot of attempts at clever turns of phrase.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Our band is very polarizing. There are people who absolutely can't stand us, and people who absolutely can't live without us. I'd rather spark those kind of polar-opposite feelings than have people be indifferent.

    "The Meaning of Life". www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    "Death Cab’s Ben Gibbard: 'The Next Record Will Be Softer'". Interview with William Goodman, www.spin.com. October 8, 2008.
  • The story of our band is that we were this relentless touring band in those early years. We were leaving day jobs and going off on the road and having fun and seeing the country for the first time. 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. I couldn't wait to go on tour back then. I would be sitting at my day job or my apartment, just itching to go. There were so many adventures that were about to happen.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I have always been very open and earnest about some things in my life, some things that are not directly in my life, but they're twirling around me at the time.

    "Q&A: Death Cab for Cutie Unpack Chris Walla’s Departure and New Album ‘Kintsugi’". Interview with Kyle McGovern, www.spin.com. April 3, 2015.
  • Keeping fans loyal is a delicate balance. Therein lies the challenge for any band that's more than a couple albums deep. It's like, how do you continue to make records that are representative of who you are that your fans will recognize as your band, while still trying to push things forward and present new sounds for people.

    People  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • 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." There are the people that are like, "I want it to sound like the last one." 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.

    People  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.

    "What Sarah Said". Song by Ben Gibbard and Nick Harmer, August 30, 2005.
  • If you tell certain people that you like Kerouac, they assume that's all you read, like you don't know anything else about literature. I recognize all the things that people dislike about the way he writes - his tone and the sentimentality of it all. But those books were there for me at a very important point in my life.

    People  
    "The Meaning of Life" by Ben Gibbard, www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.
  • At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could've taken. I don't think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder.

    "The Meaning of Life". www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.
  • I just rediscovered my guitar.

  • I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun.

    "Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard Has A Wicked Knuckler But Needs Some Control" by MTV, April 21, 2010.
  • 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. 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. I had this feeling at the time that that was not possible anymore, so the idea of becoming the biggest band in the country—it seemed laughable. I felt that having those sort of ambitions was foolish, because there was no way that was going to be possible. If you saw it that way, you were just deluding yourself.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.

  • 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. 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.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Death Cab is a militantly analog band. We'll continue moving forward with our sound, but there will be no crossover.

  • I take things a little bit more critically now, like, "What did I think I was saying in that song? What is this song about?" I thought the lyrics were incredibly descriptive, and now they sound really cryptic and weird. I'd like to also think that when I listen to songs from Something About Airplanes that I'm proud of my development as a writer. I don't think I was doing anything poorly at that time, but I can certainly see how my writing has changed.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late '50s, early '60s kind of world.

    "Postal service album keeps on delivering" by Rodrigo Perez, www.mtv.com. September 16, 2004.
  • 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, 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.

    "The Meaning of Life" by Ben Gibbard, www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.
  • 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. It's an accurate depiction of who you were and what you looked and sounded like at that point in your life. It doesn't necessarily mean that it aged in a way that it feels as cool or sounds as good to you, or says what you thought it said, 10 years later. That's just the nature of growing older.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I don't spend my time perusing message boards to find out what people think about me or if people think my songs are good or if people love that lyric or this or that. I just want to be happy with it myself - and if other people like it, that's great.

    People  
    "The Meaning of Life". www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.
  • 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.

    Source: www.spin.com
  • I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where good pop songs come from.

    "Postal service album keeps on delivering" by Rodrigo Perez, www.mtv.com. September 16, 2004.
  • 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. 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. 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.

    People  
    "The Meaning Of Life". www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.
  • 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.

    "Death Cab For Cutie's Guide To Seattle: Humble Beginnings" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. May 31, 2011.
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    Ben Gibbard

    • Born: August 11, 1976
    • Occupation: Singer-songwriter