The part of modern pop music I don't know much about is hip hop. — James Mercer About Copy Share Image
I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you… — James Mercer Art Copy Share Image
My hope is that one day I'll be able to work and have a quieter life, but still a creative life. — James Mercer Able Copy Share Image
Horrible dates are when you're with people who are immature and can't really be comfortable in their own skin. — James Mercer Comfortable Copy Share Image
Life is sad. People, you know, are going to pass, and you know that you will one day. — James Mercer Day Copy Share Image
I'm not really excited about the idea of committing to anything permanently. — James Mercer Committing Copy Share Image
I really know so little about recording, and I'm learning as I go. — James Mercer Knows Copy Share Image
I've always sort of felt like what the Shins is, I guess, is a vehicle for my writing. — James Mercer Always Copy Share Image
I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party… — James Mercer Bigs Copy Share Image
Lyrically, I think I'm frustrated with this whole process of trying to figure out what I believe about the world and life.… — James Mercer About Copy Share Image
I was a regular dork. I was a kid who was scrawny and all that, and probably kind of dumb or something.… — James Mercer Dork Copy Share Image
I really [enjoy] working with new people and just sort of the freshness of it. ... I [want] to have those new… — James Mercer Communication Copy Share Image
The way I was brought up, there was a little bit of prodding to do something more practical, and I wasted a… — James Mercer Bit Copy Share Image
So happy that Broken Bells is a thing in my life and really cool in so many ways. Not only, like, as… — James Mercer Approach Copy Share Image
We played a festival in Ireland once, and in the middle of 'New Slang,' the Scissor Sisters kicked in across the field… — James Mercer Across Copy Share Image
The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in… — James Mercer Become Copy Share Image
There's something artistic about skating. A psychologist could tell you exactly why that is, but I think there's something much more expressive… — James Mercer Artistic Copy Share Image
The thing that inspires me most is empathizing with people's flaws and seeing how they deal with them. That sort of connection… — James Mercer Connections Copy Share Image
If you're 14 and you're skinny, you can't be on the football team, basically. It's just not even really possible. But skating… — James Mercer Athletic Copy Share Image
For the longest time, I didn't even want to admit I was serious about music. Before the Shins, I would tell myself,… — James Mercer About Copy Share Image
I have the soundtrack for 'A Clockwork Orange,' which is kind of cool. I guess I don't really end up buying a… — James Mercer Another Copy Share Image
I think perfect dates involve walking a lot, and not a bunch of driving around in cars. Ideally, you can walk together… — James Mercer Another Copy Share Image
I think that what's funny is that I seem to be taking up the roles that I remember my dad having -… — James Mercer Coffee Copy Share Image
I kissed my first girl when I was 15, and then I lost my virginity when I was 17. So that's pretty… — James Mercer Ball player Copy Share Image
Meeting Perry Farrel was kind of cool. He's such an icon, and I was such a fan of Jane's Addiction. — James Mercer Addiction Copy Share Image
I kinda learned to sing singing to Echo and the Bunnymen songs and Smiths songs: Morrissey would be a big favorite. — James Mercer Big Copy Share Image
There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff. — James Mercer Away Copy Share Image
I'm real happy. I've been lucky in love, and I've got a wonderful kid now, and things have been going well. — James Mercer Been Copy Share Image
I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more upbeat stuff. — James Mercer Half Copy Share Image
I tend to [have] a lot of ideas but then just leave them in that infant form and kind of move on. — James Mercer Form Copy Share Image
I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a recording. — James Mercer Alone Copy Share Image
My whole goal is to make good records and keep myself inspired and able to accomplish what I need to accomplish. — James Mercer Able Copy Share Image
One thing that I've struggled with has been a certain amount of animosity toward the whole human race. — James Mercer Amount Copy Share Image
Until having kids, I had never really thought about mortality so much. — James Mercer About Copy Share Image
My dad was a Navy munitions officer, and by the end of his career, he was a specialist in nuclear weapons. — James Mercer Army Copy Share Image
My attempt at really doing classic sort of songwriting is Shins stuff. — James Mercer Attempt Copy Share Image
Collaboration is something I missed at one point in The Shins. I really wanted to have that experience again, you know, not… — James Mercer Again Copy Share Image
Maybe it's just parenthood that puts you in a situation where you just have to develop a new attitude, I guess, about… — James Mercer About Copy Share Image
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