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

~James Mercer

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I've never been one to think it was cheating to sample this or to loop the drum part there - I've always done that. Even using four-track cassette recorders, I was always doing whatever I could to make it as good as I could.

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I don't like the idea of a singer-songwriter record. I don't picture myself that way, and it's not my favorite sort of look, I guess. It's really just an aesthetic thing.

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When I started The Shins, it really was just me, alone, but it was still The Shins. I was totally recording stuff and writing songs as The Shins and all of that. So the beginning inception of the whole thing was some sort of a lie, I guess.

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I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands. I am a fan of many bands.

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My attempt at really doing classic sort of songwriting is Shins stuff.

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As a child, I lived in Germany at the Ramstein air force base, where my dad sang at a nightclub in Kaiserslautern. My parents couldn't afford a babysitter, so when I was, like, ten or 11, I would go with them to the bar until two in the morning.

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We played a festival in Ireland once, and in the middle of 'New Slang,' the Scissor Sisters kicked in across the field on this mega stage. It was a little distracting. It was hard to keep track of what I was supposed to sing.

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Meeting Perry Farrel was kind of cool. He's such an icon, and I was such a fan of Jane's Addiction.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: December 26th, 1970

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