James Mercer Quotes

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.

One thing that I’ve struggled with has been a certain amount of animosity toward the whole human race.

Humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy.

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.

If you’re 14 and you’re skinny, you can’t be on the football team, basically. It’s just not even really possible. But skating is something that you can do that gets that athletic urge satisfied, but you get to do it on your own terms. You can be as ballsy as you want to be. It was perfect for me.

I suppose, if someone was into baseball for an extended period of time during their formative years, they’re always going to be interested in it.

I tend to [have] a lot of ideas but then just leave them in that infant form and kind of move on.

I really [enjoy] working with new people and just sort of the freshness of it. … I [want] to have those new conversations, musically and otherwise.

My dad and I get into it all the time. He loves to discuss politics much more than I do and we have pretty heated conversations.

Horrible dates are when you’re with people who are immature and can’t really be comfortable in their own skin.

I was a regular dork. I was a kid who was scrawny and all that, and probably kind of dumb or something. I wasn’t unordinary; I wasn’t extraordinary.

The thing that inspires me most is empathizing with people’s flaws and seeing how they deal with them. That sort of connection you feel with someone when you realize that maybe even the negative things that they’ve said or done are because of insecurities or injuries they’ve endured.