104 Quotes by Ben Gibbard

I don't want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me.

We all pine for a time in life when things were simpler. Even when they weren't necessarily simpler, hindsight makes them look a lot simpler. The reality of it was that it wasn't.

Living this life in the same sorta way that Kerouac lived, you get to hang out at shows and drink and you're able to not really face reality and adulthood the way most of my friends are.

When we moved to Seattle, everybody kind of disappeared into different corners of the city and it was a very difficult time for the band.

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.

You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.

As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.

I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.

It's trippy to think we have an album that's 10 years old. It's even trippier to think we have a couple of albums older than that.