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There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
Starved
Fierce
Ideas
Firsts
First
Something

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Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.
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Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
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My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
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From a very young age, I was the kind of kid you can just put anywhere and I'd still find stuff to be stoked about.
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If you're standing in the middle of a ring and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.
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I don't really have any position to complain about my job. Yeah, every job has its moments like, Ah, you know, it's Wednesday. But I'm blessed. I love my work.
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Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something. I believe in mental health care, but when we call people crazy, we exclude them from our circle.
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When all my friends insisted that they were feeling jaded, it struck me as an affected pose. To me, everything is always new.
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Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.
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Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.
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My son, who sees me almost every day of his life, will look at me and go, I know that dude! I like that dude! It's incredibly affirming.
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I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.
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