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James Mercer Quotes

American - Musician | December 26, 1970 -

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 someone when you realize that maybe even the negative things that they've said or done are because of insecurities or injuries they've endured.

People Me Negative Someone Injuries

We played a festival in Ireland once, and in the middle of 'New Slang,' the Scissor Sisters kicked in across the field on this mega stage. It was a little distracting. It was hard to keep track of what I was supposed to sing.

New Hard Stage Little Middle Sing

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 going to figure something out someday.' I had this romantic vision of being this old dude maybe making guitars or something.

Music Vision Time Myself Romantic

My hope is that one day I'll be able to work and have a quieter life, but still a creative life.

Life Work Hope Day Creative One Day

As a child, I lived in Germany at the Ramstein air force base, where my dad sang at a nightclub in Kaiserslautern. My parents couldn't afford a babysitter, so when I was, like, ten or 11, I would go with them to the bar until two in the morning.

Morning Child Parents Go Air Force

Life is sad. People, you know, are going to pass, and you know that you will one day.

Life Sad Day People You Know

Horrible dates are when you're with people who are immature and can't really be comfortable in their own skin.

People You Skin Comfortable Immature

I most enjoy sitting down with the acoustic guitar and just fiddling around and trying to come up with something like a hook or some sort of melodic line. That's something that I do habitually.

Guitar Enjoy Trying Down Sitting Up

There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.

Broken Thinking Need Away Stuff Lot

Maybe it's just parenthood that puts you in a situation where you just have to develop a new attitude, I guess, about things.

Attitude You Situation New Things

I was really shy as a kid.

The fact that I'm often pushing my voice as hard as I can is from playing in nightclubs in Albuquerque where you don't have a good sound system.

Good Voice You I Can Sound Hard

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