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… — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
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,… — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
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
