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 GibbardMore times than not, it's a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those failed endeavors.
Ben GibbardThere'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.
Ben GibbardThe second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.
Ben GibbardI can remember how I sang - a little more nasal-y back then. Listening to those old recordings is like seeing a photograph of yourself from 10 years ago. You're wearing what you thought looked cool at the time. You had your hair styled the particular way you thought looked cool. It's an accurate depiction of who you were and what you looked and sounded like at that point in your life. It doesn't necessarily mean that it aged in a way that it feels as cool or sounds as good to you, or says what you thought it said, 10 years later. That's just the nature of growing older.
Ben Gibbard