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Continue to ChatWhen I started The Shins, it really was just me, alone, but it was still The Shins. I was totally recording stuff and writing songs as The Shins and all of that. So the beginning inception of the whole thing was some sort of a lie, I guess. - James Mercer from https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/when-i-started-the-shins-it-really-was-just-me-alone-but-it-was-still-the-shins-i-was-totally-recording-stuff