I find listening to music in terms of influences, and trying to keep up with what's going on, is sickening! I mean, I'm not deliberately musically illiterate. But I have a pretty serendipitous approach to it. — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art. — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
The whole idea of civilization as an understandable narrative is a bit nuts. It's the most problematic of delusions. — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
You don't expect people to go, "music has just been reinvented!" But the hope is that people won't say, "this is the most boring… — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
It's like, symbolic language, the way that people approach dense poetry... it always bugs me, because that approach suggests that it's like a mystery… — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
It's pretty awesome to be in a band with your wife! The tour, it beats you down, and we can just share that, and… — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
Live is best. You have movement, and I think we should do as much as we can to put that sense of movement in… — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
We're a live band. Some bands write their songs in the studio - we don't do that. We're playing songs on this tour that… — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
It's sort of cheesy to introduce that to the drums - those dings and dongs and bell sounds. That's definitely one of the reasons people are like 'oh yeah, they sound like Tom Waits, with those trashcan drums.' But at the same time, it sounds so good! And it introduces this... I mean, it's not tuned, but somehow it adds… — Carey Mercer Copy Share
I'm really happy that people are starting to hear my band, and we are so happy to be conduits for all this other happiness, and this emotional response. So, I can't be like, "that doesn't matter to me, I'm an artist, I exist apart from that!" But on the other hand, if you buy into that too much, you're setting… — Carey Mercer Copy Share
Bruegel has these paintings of people just... interacting with each other. And there's this special wink - it's not a celebration of nature, it's… — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
We hate our heroes, you know. That's one of the great things about this whole deconstruction thing - there's no more heroes. It's always… — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
One thing I've always been proud of is that vicious dichotomy between the pretty controlled, angular playing of the band, and my - I… — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
