James Mercer Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I don't like the idea of a singer-songwriter record. I don't picture myself that way, and it's not my favorite sort of look, I guess. It's really just an aesthetic thing.”

“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.”

“The way I was brought up, there was a little bit of prodding to do something more practical, and I wasted a lot of time trying to be a practical person.”