As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life..

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..

There were two recording studios in Bellingham. One was really expensive, a "nice studio." We were at the point where we were young and irreverent. W….

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 wer….

I think sometimes a narrative can come out of a single word..

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 ….

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..

The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because th….

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..

Liking interesting things doesn't make you interesting..

You look back at a time you idealize now and you only remember the good stuff. You tell the stories about the hard stuff and just laugh about it now.….

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 a….

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

I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be so pretentious to say that my ….

Nada Surf and Harvey Danger are good bands. I think they've just stayed true to why they play music in the first place, it's just because they love d….

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….

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. Ten years ag….

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..

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….

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….