Alone Quote by James Mercer

My attempt at really doing classic sort of songwriting is Shins stuff.

— James Mercer

For the longest time, I didn't even want to admit I was serious about music. Before the Shins, I would tell myself, 'Oh, I'm…

— James Mercer

I remember the first album I really completely geeked out over was The Shins' 'Wincing The Night Away.' That album was everything to me.

— Clairo

When I started, I was very unsure of who I was. There were a lot of things in the songs that I didn't realize…

— Melanie Martinez

All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when…

— Isaac Hayes

I had always wanted to make music on a big scale but never knew how it was going happen - until I saw a…

— Morten Harket

All I ever did was the songs I wanted to sing, in the way I wanted to sing them, and when people went crazy…

— Anne Murray

Have you ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight?

— Jack Nicholson

So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and…

— Richard Marx

When I went out and started making solo records, I was determined not to, I guess, put my name on an album that sounded…

— Dennis DeYoung

I was so broken when I did the first record. I was living in my parents' basement, I didn't know anyone. I was broken-hearted…

— Sharon Van Etten

We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've…

— Edie Brickell