49 Quotes by James Vincent McMorrow

I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down.

I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up.

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.

Sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.

My first record was made in Termonfeckin, which is a small town on the north-east coast of Ireland. I had been in London, but it didn't click. So, at home, I didn't think about making something, just whether something could be made. There was no grand plan.

More often than not, changes had to be made in order for a song to make sense, and by the end of it, it would just be something different. Lyrically, I am usually fairly confused until something is finished, and then it makes perfect sense to me.

I don't know about folk music. I play guitar, so there's a feeling I make folk music.

It bothers me when musicians listen to music from the '60s and try and recreate it. Those people weren't trying to recreate music from the '20s. Why do it?