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 lyrics are poetry. ... Poems are poems. Song lyrics are for songs.
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
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
I think sometimes a narrative can come out of a single word.
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
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…
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
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…
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
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.
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
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…
And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time. - Ben Gibbard
And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.
Liking interesting things doesn't make you interesting. - Ben Gibbard
Liking interesting things doesn't make you interesting.
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
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…
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