File another one under "Celebrities with Sleep Problems" --- according to MTV, singer/songwriter James Mercer suffers from bouts of insomnia when he's under stress, a fact that informed most of the songwriting on the new album "Wincing the Night Away":
"I may have some sort of insomnia — it's not crippling," he allowed. "But it's something I wrestle with once in awhile if I've got a stressful situation or something to deal with. And so, during the recording of this record, I was up late quite often and just found myself in this other world: my neighborhood at night," he said, referring to his Portland, Oregon hometown. "It's sort of romantic, it's spooky. And so I went with that as a theme and tried to create this nocturnal vibe. There's something to be said about being awake when everyone else is asleep. There's a spirit to it."
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