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.
From James Mercer
Meeting Perry Farrel was kind of cool. He's such an icon, and I was such a fan of Jane's Addiction.
There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.
Maybe it's just parenthood that puts you in a situation where you just have to develop a new attitude, I guess, about things.
For the longest time, I didn't even want to admit I was serious about music. Before the Shins, I would tell myself, 'Oh, I'm going to figure something out someday.' I had this romantic vision of being this old dude maybe making guitars or something.
My hope is that one day I'll be able to work and have a quieter life, but still a creative life.
I was really shy as a kid.
The fact that I'm often pushing my voice as hard as I can is from playing in nightclubs in Albuquerque where you don't have a good sound system.
I've always sort of felt like what the Shins is, I guess, is a vehicle for my writing.
I kinda learned to sing singing to Echo and the Bunnymen songs and Smiths songs: Morrissey would be a big favorite.
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