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 ….

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 i….

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 so….

I don't want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me..

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..

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 ra….

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

A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don't feel the way they expect. No exp….

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

For me, a song doesn't really take flight until it has a lyric on it. ...Without a lyric that I'm happy with, it could be the greatest song ever melo….

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 ….

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 t….

I just rediscovered my guitar..

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 ….

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 writi….

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 s….

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 havin….

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've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist..

And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time..

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….