Humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy.

- James Mercer

I kissed my first girl when I was 15, and then I lost my virginity when I was 17. So that's pretty good. It was just that when you're in high school,…

- James Mercer

My extended family is very political and very polar with each other, and it's put a bad taste in my mouth. All the rhetoric going back and forth and …

- James Mercer

I'm not really excited about the idea of committing to anything permanently.

- James Mercer

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 suffe…

- James Mercer

I think that was going on with bands like The Strokes was that the idea of the band, a real band, was making a comeback. My brother in law is an exam…

- James Mercer

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 c…

- James Mercer

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.

- James Mercer

I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party hasn't begun until we're talking abou…

- James Mercer