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 ….

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 ….

Liking interesting things doesn't make you interesting..

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..

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

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….

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..

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….

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

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….

Between every record, we all split off in our own world and we all end up listening to usually pretty different music on our own. We come together no….

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….

Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's a language aside from the lang….

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..

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.….

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….

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 ….

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….

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

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….

We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record….