James Mercer Quotes

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• The thing that inspires me most is empathizing with people's flaws and seeing how they deal with them. That sort of connection you feel with…
• I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party hasn't begun until…
• There's no real reason for me to be so obsessed with trying to understand the true nature of things. You can live a perfectly happy…
• I was really shy as a kid.
• I kinda learned to sing singing to Echo and the Bunnymen songs and Smiths songs: Morrissey would be a big favorite.
• Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone…
• My dad was a Navy munitions officer, and by the end of his career, he was a specialist in nuclear weapons.
• I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more upbeat stuff.
• I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a recording.
• Collaboration is something I missed at one point in The Shins. I really wanted to have that experience again, you know, not having everything rely…
• So happy that Broken Bells is a thing in my life and really cool in so many ways. Not only, like, as something to sell…
• I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.
• When I started The Shins, it really was just me, alone, but it was still The Shins. I was totally recording stuff and writing songs…
• I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands. I am a fan…
• My attempt at really doing classic sort of songwriting is Shins stuff.
• The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in the world become…
• Until having kids, I had never really thought about mortality so much.
• Life is sad. People, you know, are going to pass, and you know that you will one day.
• The way I was brought up, there was a little bit of prodding to do something more practical, and I wasted a lot of time…
• I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from, so it gets…

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