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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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One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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While writing is a mystical process, it's also work. If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going to pat you on the back - everyone does that. Well, do that with your writing. Just show up. Be there for it. When you get an idea, write it down somewhere and then be a steward of that idea.
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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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You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday and you're 17 years old.
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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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