"If people only knew me by the songs that I write, I think people wouldn’t assume that I have a sense of humor,” Gibbard told Rolling Stone. “But I think most people would be surprised how a lot of musicians that you would not think were really funny – and I’m not including myself in this, I’m just saying in general – are really fucking funny. Especially people who tend to write songs that, on the surface, are a lot more serious … Conor Oberst is one of the funniest people I know, but if you only knew him by his lyrics, you wouldn’t necessarily get that."