"When I started The Shins, it really was……" — James Mercer
"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 as The Shins and all of that. So the beginning inception of the whole thing was some sort of a lie, I guess."
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James Mercer
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22 Quotes by James Mercer
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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…
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I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me,…
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There's no real reason for me to be so obsessed with trying to understand the true nature of things. You…
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I was really shy as a kid.
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I kinda learned to sing singing to Echo and the Bunnymen songs and Smiths songs: Morrissey would be a big…
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Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying…
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My dad was a Navy munitions officer, and by the end of his career, he was a specialist in nuclear…
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I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more…
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I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a…
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Collaboration is something I missed at one point in The Shins. I really wanted to have that experience again, you…
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So happy that Broken Bells is a thing in my life and really cool in so many ways. Not only,…
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I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful…
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