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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.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
Always
York
Like
Walking
Year
Sense
Self
Feel
June
Feels
Friday
Years
Evening

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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'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
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My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
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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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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'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it.
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It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.
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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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A novel is a performance you have to plan.
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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 just started writing stuff to kill time on summer evenings. This is why I'm always telling people who ask me what they need to do to succeed to give up, do something else.
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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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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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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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You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.
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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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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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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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Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.
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