I'm sure that's every adolescent's complaint about their home town. When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated..

My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player..

There is a beauty to touring - to be honest, there's a way that music connects and you really feel the actual reaction of people to the music that yo….

I want a song that raises the hair on the back of my neck when I sing it live and I want to feel it every time..

There was always a unique Beirut sound, it was always there, and so this time I just dove straight into that, instead of daydreaming and wandering..

As much as I try to grow as a lyricist, I tend to laugh at even calling myself that, because I think that my actual talents lie more in arrangements ….

The more I know, the more I realise I don't know. And the more I realise I'll never truly understand..

Raucous drunken trumpets and instrumentation tend to guide the way you think. They can give you a path to follow lyrically..

You always know when a real inspiration is behind the melody, arrangements, even lyrics. And I know that's really vague, but it's true..

It's just not an image I had ever put out about myself - the bedroom synth guy. The whole thing seemed ridiculous..

Often when I find myself listening to music, at least 60 to 70% of it is foreign, so I don't understand a word of it. Melody to me will always be a m….

I could probably spend the next five years reworking an album from ten years ago, if given the chance, to make it better - make it best, so to speak..

I think that there's a proliferation of music that is done entirely in the bedroom for an Internet audience, but there's no way in hell that you coul….

I'm not an amazing trumpet player. It's mostly smoke and mirrors. You shake the trumpet and it starts to vibrate in a ridiculous drunken way, or you ….

I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music..

I was always looking outside of myself for stories and ideas and influences and then I kind of realized in 2010, that all of this time, I've develope….

I'm very flash and burn - the first thing that comes to mind is obviously the best idea, and that's because it should come out of a natural place, an….

I write one step at a time, always finishing off the part I'm working on before even thinking about the next part. I need to hear it all together bef….

I think that sonically, music speaks volumes more than words do, and I have always thought that and will continue to think that for the rest of my li….

As a teenager and a young adult, I never felt like my own story was interesting enough to tell, so I always wrote lyrics from someone else's perspect….

I was a very good student until about sophomore year, and that's when I just became so disillusioned with the whole thing that I just became an awful….