The 54+ Ben Gibbard Quotes

I Just Rediscovered My Guitar.

I'm Not Like A 90-mph Fastball Kind Of Guy, But I Can Hit 70 On Radar Gun.

I Was Literally Just Going And Applying For Jobs, And I Couldn't Get A Job, And I Was Getting More And More Broke, And You Find Yourself Groveling For Jobs You Don't Even Want.

Everybody Has A Language Or Code That They Use With Their Wife Or Their Girlfriend Or Boyfriend Or What Have You. It’s A Language Aside From The Language They Have With Strangers. I’ve Always Been Maybe An Abuser Of Alliteration, But I’ve Always Loved It And I Like How Those Words Sound Together.

I Like Writing On Piano And A Computer, And A Lot Of 'plans' Came Out Of Samples And Vocal Lines.

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 Doing It And They Love Each Other And That's The Impetus For Doing It, Not Trying To Keep Singles On The Radio And On Mtv.

I Feel Like There's A Lot Of Beauty In The Darkness Of 'narrow Stairs,' But That's Not Really A Place I'm Ready To Go To For A While. I'm Interested In Taking A Different Approach And Having The Next Record Be Different In Tone - I'm Just Not Interested In Making Another Dark, Dark Album.

I Feel That We Are Currently Living In A World That Is Similar To Late '50s, Early '60s Kind Of World.

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.

I Don't Spend My Time Perusing Message Boards To Find Out What People Think About Me Or If People Think My Songs Are Good Or If People Love That Lyric Or This Or That. I Just Want To Be Happy With It Myself - And If Other People Like It, That's Great.

To Set The Record Straight For The God Knows Millionth Time, We Certainly Didnt Sign To Atlantic Just For The Money.

As A Songwriter, I'm Not Necessarily Writing About Myself Or My Life.