James Mercer Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I really know so little about recording, and I'm learning as I go.

The lines are all imagined.

My whole goal is to make good records and keep myself inspired and able to accomplish what I need to accomplish.

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

Until having kids, I had never really thought about mortality so much.

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

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

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.

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

I'm not really excited about the idea of committing to anything permanently.

Meeting Perry Farrel was kind of cool. He's such an icon, and I was such a fan of Jane's Addiction.

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

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.

My dad and I get into it all the time. He loves to discuss politics much more than I do and we have pretty heated conversations.

There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.
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I really [enjoy] working with new people and just sort of the freshness of it ... I [want] to have those new conversations, musically and otherwise.

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