Ben Gibbard - Feel Quotes

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It's amazing to have people singing a song back to you on a stage. It's great to finish recording a song and play it for your friend, and they love it. That feels good. But nothing feels better than when you've finished something and you know it's good, and you know that those other responses will come in time.

Ben Gibbard
A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don't feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.

Ben Gibbard
It's hard enough having a relationship with one person, but to have a relationship with three other bandmates that you are so intimately tied to and you spend so much time with — and to have that actually work and function — is just astounding. I have been in a band for more than 10 years now. I never thought I'd be doing anything for 10 years straight, let alone a band, and I feel so fortunate for that. I have been allowed for some reason to do that. But it's even more amazing that we get along better now than we did 10 years ago.

Ben Gibbard
I feel like there's a lot of beauty in the darkness of Narrow Stairs, but that's not really a place I'm ready to go to for a while. I'm interested in taking a different approach and having the next record be different in tone — I'm just not interested in making another dark, dark album.

Ben Gibbard