49 Quotes by James Vincent McMorrow

I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.

I didn't really learn how to play guitar until I was in college.

I'm learning on the guitar all the time.

Its always important to fall back on your instincts and core beliefs and that was pretty hard for me to do but trusting in my self the way I trusted that if I were to sit at a piano for two hours and I was going learn something, that trust I'd put in myself really helped me get through it. For five to six months I just wrote songs and believed they would turn out to be things I could be proud of and be happy.

I've traveled quite a lot and become a coffee nut.

I'm mostly a keep-to-myself kind of guy, but you slowly find yourself getting folded into the musical tapestry.

The idea of trying to predict what people will or won't respond to is risky.

I write songs on a course of time that's comfortable for me. I would probably never write a song from start to finish in the course of a day, hell probably not even a week. My mind is always going to change and my emotional state will also change on a daily basis.

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.