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My son, who sees me almost every day of his life, will look at me and go, I know that dude! I like that dude! It's incredibly affirming.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
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Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
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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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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 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 make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for experimental novels, I might really be onto something.
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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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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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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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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 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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I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun.
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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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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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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 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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It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.
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The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
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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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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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