When everybody is playing at the same level, there's so much more noise. And there's less incentive for the people who should be rising above that no…

- Colin Meloy

We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an in…

- Colin Meloy

One thing about hanging out with a baby is that you can remember a little bit better what it was like to be a kid, and all the mystery that came alon…

- Colin Meloy

I'd rather have a strong career, playing and selling records to a loyal audience, then having one record that exploded. That would be devastating.

- Colin Meloy

As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.

- Colin Meloy

And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones.

- Colin Meloy

Prog-rock and concept records and some ambitious projects were kind of anathema post-punk. They were destroyed with the advent of punk rock. You don'…

- Colin Meloy

It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world aro…

- Colin Meloy

I have a conflicted relationship with musicals, because I think the music itself can be so horrendous. It's an industry that relies on appealing to a…

- Colin Meloy