"When you play competitive tennis you are competing against someone else and you have to win. Playing music I didn't have to win I had to become better within myself."

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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, you're sort of forced into the normal world, where you're competing with the football players, just kind of in that world where somebody like me didn't quite fit in.

— James Mercer