I'm terribly forgetful. I've lost laptops, cell-phones.

I'm just a regular guy, but if you cross me it will get physical.

I am not opposed to doing a side project, like Death Cab for Cutie, where it's completely different from my own band.

If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.

I knew I could make money from songwriting, so how much and when was not really the question.

When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.

I'm a sucker for pop melodies, things you can't get out of your head.