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.

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

The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.

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.

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.

More times than not, it's a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those failed endeavors.

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.