Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it.
From James Mercer
My dad was a Navy munitions officer, and by the end of his career, he was a specialist in nuclear weapons.
I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more upbeat stuff.
I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a recording.
Collaboration is something I missed at one point in The Shins. I really wanted to have that experience again, you know, not having everything rely on me. I wanted to have a partner.
So happy that Broken Bells is a thing in my life and really cool in so many ways. Not only, like, as something to sell records and be a band and whatnot, but just to give me an outlet and give me a fresh approach on things.
I'm real happy. I've been lucky in love, and I've got a wonderful kid now, and things have been going well.
For some reason, it seems like pop writers, it's like they just get worse or something over time. And then you're really jealous of movie directors whose careers seem to grow and they'll be 70 years old and still doing these incredible jobs. I'm going to reverse that, I hope.
The part of modern pop music I don't know much about is hip hop.
I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.
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