James Mercer Quotes

One thing that I've struggled with has been a certain amount of animosity toward the whole human race.

Humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy.

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.

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.

The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in the world become very poignant and vivid.

I've never gone through an audition process or anything. In most of my decisions like that, I just kind of feel it out: You know, do I feel comfortable with this person?

I think perfect dates involve walking a lot, and not a bunch of driving around in cars. Ideally, you can walk together and go to a restaurant.

Horrible dates are when you're with people who are immature and can't really be comfortable in their own skin.

I really know so little about recording, and I'm learning as I go.

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.

I suppose, if someone was into baseball for an extended period of time during their formative years, they're always going to be interested in it.

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

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.

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

I tend to [have] a lot of ideas but then just leave them in that infant form and kind of move on.

I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party hasn't begun until we're talking about the nonexistence of God.

There's no real reason for me to be so obsessed with trying to understand the true nature of things. You can live a perfectly happy life being utterly confused and not knowing.

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

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