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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
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
Sin
Close
Hard
Really
Way

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The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.
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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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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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I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.
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I start writing, pull whatever images happen to occur to me and make up a story, instead of starting with details that are real and I know of and going from there.
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Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.
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I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.
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I don't like to say, Oh, I don't like this kind of music. I like to listen to it and try to see what people who like it get out of it.
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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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