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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.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
Stories
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Heart
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Mind
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Make
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If you're standing in the middle of a ring and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.
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This is the funny thing about me. People think John just comes up with all the ideas. I'm honored. People think I have a big old brain, but actually I am the sum of the people I work with.
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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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Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.
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It's an important moment as a reader, I think, when you can forget the question of whether you need to know what happened. Some people really want hard explanations. I'm the other way. I like mysteries. I don't want to frustrate people. I don't want people to feel like they got no answers, but I want to approach the mystery and sit with it.
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Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and then when you get a good angle, you throw it through a window to see what happens.
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There are real teachers out there I don't pretend to have their mantle.
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I suspect by the time the Beatles were writing the White Album, they didn't go, 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand!' I wanna play that! It's like if somebody asked you to put on the clothes you wore in high school. Well, no. No!
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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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Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority.
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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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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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It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.
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The only people who are afraid of file sharing are the people whose albums are so dull presentation-wise that nobody cares about owning the actual finished product, and the people who have so little connection to their listeners that said listeners have no reason to care whether the artists they like are getting reimbursed for their efforts.
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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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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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It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.
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I think it's a misconception that metal's about anger, obviously.
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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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I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.
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