“I’d be in public trying to make her laugh and I don’t care what I look like because she’s the funniest person in the world to me” James Vincent McMorrow Daughter Margot The new album SONGWRITER and singer James Vincent McMorrow tells how becoming a dad for the first time has changed his life. Back with a new album, Wide Open, Horses, which features his five-year-old daughter, Margot, singing a line on one of the songs, James tells Shuffle: “It (fatherhood) is great. It was definitely something I needed.
I would recommend it to all musicians to lose your absolute ego and hubris. “I needed to be a human being, because by the time it got to the end of 2017 (after achieving success) I couldn’t go out to get milk. I’m not built for human interaction.
I was just built for a tour bus and the next thing and the next thing...
and I’d come home and just sit on my couch and watch a thousand TV shows and go tour again. “And that was life for me. I don’t go out, I’m not super social, I don’t drink.
..I’m not anti-social, but I’m pretty much a keep to myself person and it was just becoming, ‘ok, this could lead to darker situations if I don’t do something.
’ Daughter Margot “Obviously having a child wasn’t an intention to get me out of my darkness, but it definitely removes all the bullsh*t. She doesn’t care about my moods or how I’m feeling, she just needs to be taken care of. Also, it makes you fun.
I’d be in public trying to make her laugh a.
