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The real challenge of writing songs isn't just writing a bunch of parts - like a verse, chorus, verse - but making something that flows together, that brings you back.

~James Mercer

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I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from, so it gets easier as you go.

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The Shins is, in a way, a recording project that turned into a live band. So I don't really keep myself beholden to any rules when I'm in the studio for Shins. I just gotta get it done as best I can.

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My whole goal is to make good records and keep myself inspired and able to accomplish what I need to accomplish.

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You have to keep the recording process open. If you make too many decisions before you go in, you can lose out on those serendipitous moments that can really make a record, that I think are always required in the making of a really good record.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: December 26th, 1970

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