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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
Change is inevitable; our response to it defines who we are.
— James W. Mercer
I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more upbeat stuff.
— James Mercer
Exploring the layers of the earth is like reading the pages of a book.
— James W. Mercer
Judicial activism, by definition, is a term applied to judges who render decisions with which you disagree.
— James W. Mercer
Humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy.
— James Mercer
Horrible dates are when you're with people who are immature and can't really be comfortable in their own skin.
— James Mercer
One thing that I've struggled with has been a certain amount of animosity toward the whole human race.
— James Mercer
I tend to [have] a lot of ideas but then just leave them in that infant form and kind of move on.
— James Mercer
I've always sort of felt like what the Shins is, I guess, is a vehicle for my writing.
— James Mercer
I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.
— James Mercer
I kinda learned to sing singing to Echo and the Bunnymen songs and Smiths songs: Morrissey would be a big favorite.
— James Mercer
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
My hope is that one day I'll be able to work and have a quieter life, but still a creative life.
— James Mercer
A leader does not stand still and reject all paths forward.
— James W. Mercer
My whole goal is to make good records and keep myself inspired and able to accomplish what I need to accomplish.
— James Mercer
The lines are all imagined.
— James Mercer
I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a recording.
— James Mercer
If an all-powerful, benevolent God allows untold suffering, then that God is either not all-powerful or not benevolent.
— James W. Mercer
Life is sad. People, you know, are going to pass, and you know that you will one day.
— James Mercer
Maybe it's just parenthood that puts you in a situation where you just have to develop a new attitude, I guess, about things.
— James Mercer
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
I'm real happy. I've been lucky in love, and I've got a wonderful kid now, and things have been going well.
— James Mercer
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.
— James Mercer
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.
— James Mercer
There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.
— James Mercer
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.
— James Mercer
My dad was a Navy munitions officer, and by the end of his career, he was a specialist in nuclear weapons.
— James Mercer
Logical thinking is a prerequisite to good choices.
— James W. Mercer