70 Quotes by 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.

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

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.

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.

Humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy.

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

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

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.

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