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 easier as you go. James Mercer Read Quote
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 of many bands. James Mercer Read Quote
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. James Mercer Read Quote
Meeting Perry Farrel was kind of cool. He’s such an icon, and I was such a fan of Jane’s Addiction. James Mercer Read Quote
There is pressure that comes with everything being a big deal. I remember thinking, ‘I need to survive the Shins. I don’t know what I’m going to do to make a living otherwise, but I really don’t want to do the Shins right now.’ James Mercer Read Quote
Life is sad. People, you know, are going to pass, and you know that you will one day. James Mercer Read Quote
I was a regular dork. I was a kid who was scrawny and all that, and probably kind of dumb or something. I wasn’t unordinary; I wasn’t extraordinary. James Mercer Read Quote
Horrible dates are when you’re with people who are immature and can’t really be comfortable in their own skin. James Mercer Read Quote
