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- Nov 07, 2020
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's like, how do you continue to make records that are representative of who you are that your fans will recognize as your band, while still trying to push things forward and present new sounds for people.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record kind of reveal itself to us over time.
- Together
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
For 'Narrow Stairs', the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room and just play. I can honestly say I had more fun and felt more inspired on this record than anything that we had done in a long time.
- Lines
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love bummer songs.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just rediscovered my guitar.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun. I hit 70 one time on a radar guy at one of those pitch-and-throw kind of things. I have a pretty good arm for somebody who's not a baseball player.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where good pop songs come from.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late '50s, early '60s kind of world.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020
The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we aspired to in 1998, we have wildly surpassed. And I know we all feel incredibly grateful and lucky this band has been able to have the life that it's had.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Song
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided a handful of years ago that I just want to write songs that you can understand as soon as you put the record on. There's no need to veil what's happening in the song the way I used to.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the narratives on 'Trans,' 'Plans,' and 'Narrow Stairs' moved away from the way I wrote on the first couple of records, which was a lot more impressionistic. I was writing those songs in my early 20s, so I thought I was being more clear than I actually was.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I listen to and play the songs from 'Narrow Stairs' now, that record feels like a record where we had established a style that arguably was more our own than it was in the beginning. Going into that record, I felt a lot more confident in my songwriting. It was a fairly prolific time for me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We tend to think of our idols as kind of superheroes; maybe less so today, given that people have a tendency to overshare on social media, but when I was growing up, all you knew about these people was what they allowed you to see - which was them doing superhuman things, up on stage in an arena with all these people going crazy.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love San Francisco more than any other city outside of Seattle, but I've seen it go from a vibrant, creative community to a playground for tech bros.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you connect as many memories to your geography as I have, and then you see that geography change around you, you're forced to reckon with the passage of time.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that the Seattle my parents knew is not the Seattle I know and that these things exist in a state of constant flux and change. The hope is that at least some of that change can be for the better.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm old, I'd like to wake up in the morning and not really do anything - just be happy to exist. I'd like to look at my accomplishments and sit back and revel in my own achievement.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
At some point, I thought that, as I got older, I'd come to terms with a lot of things. I'd solve some big problems, and eventually I'd become content. It's almost more depressing to think that the older you get, the more your problems multiply.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember hoping there'd be 10 people at a show in 1998 when there was an incredible write-up in the local weekly. I don't want to go back to that period of being obscure and having nobody know who I am, let alone have to struggle to get people to come to the show.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death Cab always gets right of first refusal on everything I write, but I tend to know early on. There's a song that has yet to be released - it might come to light at some point in the near future - that when I was writing it, I was really proud of it lyrically.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always try to write the best song I can in the moment, and those songs are often going to end up on Death Cab for Cutie records. I don't set out to write a solo song or write a band song. I just write, and where that songs ends up is kind of TBD.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I look back at 2003, it was the best year I've ever had creatively: having 'Transatlanctism' and 'Give Up come' out in the course of six months. I'll never have another year like that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a very clear cut example of - dare I say - plagiarism is the Sam Smith-Tom Petty situation, where you have a song that is flagrantly... it is the hook from one song being used for another song. To me, that was a very obvious example of plagiarism. If somebody had done that to me, I would probably take a similar course of action.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't feel that all the great songs have been written. I do feel that where we are now, certainly with rock & roll music, is that so much of it is variations on themes. But I think that it's one's particular creativity and individuality that comes out within that variation on a particular theme that makes a song great.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would much rather hear a song that's written from a fresh perspective, using ideas that have existed in rock & roll for 50 years, than something that is incredibly abrasive to my ears but is new.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's something that feels so good about a 1-4-5 chord progression. It's a very standard chord progression, and it just feels good to the ears.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of people who become music fans have that moment where they break from their parents' music, they break from the radio and MTV - at least in my generation, they did, and MTV isn't really a thing anymore. And you discover something that defines you, that is outside of the mainstream.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've written a lot of songs in the last couple years, but writing a lot of songs doesn't always mean writing good songs.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020