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…

- Ben Gibbard

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

- Ben Gibbard

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…

- Ben Gibbard

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…

- Ben Gibbard

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.

- Ben Gibbard

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…

- Ben Gibbard

Liking interesting things doesn't make you interesting.

- Ben Gibbard

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

- Ben Gibbard

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…

- Ben Gibbard