“I most enjoy sitting down with the acoustic guitar and just fiddling a...” — James Mercer Quote

“I most enjoy sitting down with the acoustic guitar and just fiddling around and trying to come up with something like a hook or some sort of melodic line. That's something that I do habitually.”

“I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a recording.”

“I was really shy as a kid.”

“I've always loved Country, folk, and the acoustic end of music.”

“I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is to play in front of thousands with an entire bombastic band behind you.”

“It all started in a local park in El Paso called Madeleine Park. At a ditch, a very small ditch, that everybody used to go skateboarding in. It was me and Jim Ward and an acoustic guitar. He and I constructed the very first phases of At The Drive In.”