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 want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me.

I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun.

There's a cinematic quality that happens in my mind when I hear something that really lands. An album is just a journal of a life moving through time.

Death Cab is a militantly analog band. We'll continue moving forward with our sound, but there will be no crossover.

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.

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