49 Quotes by James Vincent McMorrow

My favorite records are not easy - they're not records that reveal everything to you the first time out.

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

I feel the reasons my songs might seem dark is because of how I viewed the situations I was in and it was just something I always felt like documenting.

You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.

I don't know if I'm attention deficit, but I certainly am easily distracted by other things.

I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will.

Music is really everything I know. To be honest every experience I've ever had has been brought up from music and everything I do is because of music. I don't know anything else, I think about music before I go to sleep and it just really is everything that I am.

I grew up in a place called Malahide, which is by the water and is beautifully quiet, leafy, and part serene.

I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.