“The fact that I'm often pushing my voice as hard as I can is from play...” — James Mercer Quote

“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 don't like the idea of a singer-songwriter record. I don't picture myself that way, and it's not my favorite sort of look, I guess. It's really just an aesthetic thing.”

“Until having kids, I had never really thought about mortality so much.”

“I played a lot of nightclubs in and around Tulsa till I was about 22, 24 years old, then I started travellin' around.”

“I have a pop sensibility, which I think comes from all those weekends spent in nightclubs.”

“I don't go to nightclubs or discoteque. That's not going to happen. I wear Zegna all the time. Outside of the court, I'm wearing Zegna. That's all I'm wearing.”