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One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
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Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
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Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.
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The possibility of disaster remains horrific to me. Like when you know everything's about to go wrong in a way that's not controllable or knowable.
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I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.
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I'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it.
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There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.
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It's impossible to be content all the time - you have to learn to be content in places where you're unhappy and owning your emotions, whatever they are.
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I grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.
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I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.
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The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
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I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun.
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The moment where you know the thing you want is ridiculous and pompous and a terrible thing to want anyway. The direction in which you're headed is not the direction you want to go, yet you're going to head that way a while longer cause that's just the kind of person you are.
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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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I don't celebrate milestones and I don't do anniversary editions. It's not my style to reflect on accomplishments.
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I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for experimental novels, I might really be onto something.
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My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
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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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Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.
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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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It makes me envious of anybody who can say truly that they don't care what anybody thinks of what they do, because I care a lot about the people who like my stuff.
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