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.

- Zach Condon

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

- Zach Condon

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 …

- Zach Condon

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…

- Zach Condon

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…

- Zach Condon

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…

- Zach Condon

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…

- Zach Condon

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…

- Zach Condon

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

- Zach Condon