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I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a recording.
- James Mercer
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I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more upbeat stuff.
- James Mercer
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My dad was a Navy munitions officer, and by the end of his career, he was a specialist in nuclear weapons.
- James Mercer
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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.
- James Mercer
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I kinda learned to sing singing to Echo and the Bunnymen songs and Smiths songs: Morrissey would be a big favorite.
- James Mercer
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I've always sort of felt like what the Shins is, I guess, is a vehicle for my writing.
- James Mercer
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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
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My hope is that one day I'll be able to work and have a quieter life, but still a creative life.
- James Mercer
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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
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There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.
- James Mercer
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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
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I have the soundtrack for 'A Clockwork Orange,' which is kind of cool. I guess I don't really end up buying a lot of modern soundtracks. Another soundtrack I love is from a French movie called 'Betty Blue.' it has some really melancholy piano work.
- James Mercer
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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.
- James Mercer
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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.
- James Mercer
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