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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
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Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
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People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.
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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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The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.
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You should avoid seeing too much of yourself anywhere: in the outside world, in others, in the imagined worlds that give you shelter.
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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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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
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I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much.
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It's easy to follow national politics and weigh in on social media, but if I'm tweeting stuff about Chatham County, no one cares.
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I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
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I think it's a misconception that metal's about anger, obviously.
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In death metal, a lot of guys are Eddie Van Halen disciples, but they take his style to really expressionistic places. It's a real pleasure for me to hear people pushing their craft.
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You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.
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The South actually has a very strong tradition of activism. The civil rights movement came from down here! It was black activists demanding that their voices be heard. People say these are red states. No they're not!
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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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I think The Sunset Tree is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.
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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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Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted.
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It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.
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Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.
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I usually kind of can't wait until my records leak. Back in the day, you could give people tapes, but you can't do that anymore, because it would be available to everyone on the planet within an hour.
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