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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.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
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This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.
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I consider myself a lyricist first and foremost, but if you get something else out of what I do, that's fine too. I'm not sitting back here telling people how they have to take my stuff. We just want to play music, and hope that people like it.
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You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.
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One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.
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Back in the 90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.
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Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.
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If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them.
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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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I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.
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It's good to be young, but let's not kid ourselves/ It's better to pass on through those years and come out the other side/ With our hearts still beating/ Having stared down demons/ Come back breathing.
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The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
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Human beings are selfish by nature. Everything that happens to a child, you immediately grab your own child and say, I will never let that happen to you.
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