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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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It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.
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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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There are stylists I really love. I'm a huge Joan Didion fan - if I wrote something that she might like, then I'd feel very proud. I want the action to move as quickly as it does in A Book of Common Prayer, where one thing bonks right into another very quickly.
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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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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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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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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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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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I grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.
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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 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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One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.
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You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.
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People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends?
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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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When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.
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The fact that somebody's telling you a story about people who didn't exist doesn't make the experience of the story any less real in your heart and mind.
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I think it's a misconception that metal's about anger, obviously.
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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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