We're a live band. Some bands write their songs in the studio - we don't do that. We're playing songs on this tour that were written three days befor…

- Carey Mercer

You don't expect people to go, "music has just been reinvented!" But the hope is that people won't say, "this is the most boring cliché." I mean, tha…

- Carey Mercer

It's sort of cheesy to introduce that to the drums - those dings and dongs and bell sounds. That's definitely one of the reasons people are like 'oh …

- Carey Mercer

I'm really happy that people are starting to hear my band, and we are so happy to be conduits for all this other happiness, and this emotional respon…

- Carey Mercer

An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.

- Carey Mercer

Tour is disgusting, actually, I have no idea how people do it. Your brain would go to rot, unless you really, really worked hard at making sure it di…

- Carey Mercer

The whole idea of civilization as an understandable narrative is a bit nuts. It's the most problematic of delusions.

- Carey Mercer

Ten people who are into our music is better than three hundred people who are just standing there.

- Carey Mercer

We hate our heroes, you know. That's one of the great things about this whole deconstruction thing - there's no more heroes. It's always been there, …

- Carey Mercer