“I was a regular dork. I was a kid who was scrawny and all that, and pr...” — James Mercer Quote

“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 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.”

“I was really shy as a kid.”

“I love you, C-3PO. I love the original trilogy. But when R2-D2 runs away in the first 'Star Wars,' instead of stopping him or going to tell Luke and Uncle Owen, he hides. It's so good. He hides! He has to wait for Luke to come and tell him R2-D2 ran away. What a dork!”

“I don't like to say 'dork' and 'nerd' and things like that because I think that everyone is cool in their own right.”

“Do you have any problems, other than that you're unemployed, a moron, and a dork?”