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James Mercer Quotes

American - Musician | December 26, 1970 -

I've always sort of felt like what the Shins is, I guess, is a vehicle for my writing.

Writing Always Like Vehicle Guess

I kinda learned to sing singing to Echo and the Bunnymen songs and Smiths songs: Morrissey would be a big favorite.

Singing Big Echo Sing Would Songs

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 are suffering for it.

Alone Suffering Think Friends Trying

My dad was a Navy munitions officer, and by the end of his career, he was a specialist in nuclear weapons.

End Career Navy Nuclear Weapons He

I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more upbeat stuff.

Slow More Write Pretty Things Half

I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a recording.

Alone Together People Me Help Write

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 on me. I wanted to have a partner.

Experience Me Collaboration Partner

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 records and be a band and whatnot, but just to give me an outlet and give me a fresh approach on things.

Life Broken Happy Me Cool My Life

I'm real happy. I've been lucky in love, and I've got a wonderful kid now, and things have been going well.

Love Happy Now Lucky Kid Real

For some reason, it seems like pop writers, it's like they just get worse or something over time. And then you're really jealous of movie directors whose careers seem to grow and they'll be 70 years old and still doing these incredible jobs. I'm going to reverse that, I hope.

Hope Time Jealous Grow Doing You

The part of modern pop music I don't know much about is hip hop.

Music Know Modern Pop Hip Hop Hip

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

Beautiful Art Ethics You Make Just

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