James Vincent McMorrow Quotes

I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down.

Sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

I have a vision for everything that I make, but... I'm not that considerate about what I do. I do whatever is in my head and how it ends up tends to be the thing that it's supposed to be. It was never a premeditated decision.

I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.

I write songs on a course of time that's comfortable for me. I would probably never write a song from start to finish in the course of a day, hell probably not even a week. My mind is always going to change and my emotional state will also change on a daily basis.

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a way that's poetic and artistic.

With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

Food in Dublin has gotten immeasurably better than it was. When I was a kid, there weren't a lot of options. Now you're overwhelmed with options.

I really wanted to approach performing live differently than most people who just play guitar and sing.

I didn't really learn how to play guitar until I was in college.

I moved to London with this really warped sense of expectation.

I don't know if I'm attention deficit, but I certainly am easily distracted by other things.

I really wanted to get that dynamic on the record onto people and let them know it wasn't just a simple strumming along the guitar type of thing without ramming it down their throats so I kind of went the opposite way and sang some of the songs more quietly which allowed for the louder parts to sound as though there were more. It was the only way singing those songs made sense to me.

I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will.

I grew up in a place called Malahide, which is by the water and is beautifully quiet, leafy, and part serene.

I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.

I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a lawyer.

You get one chance to make an impression and coasting through is a disservice.

I'm learning on the guitar all the time.

I've traveled quite a lot and become a coffee nut.

The idea of trying to predict what people will or won't respond to is risky.

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.