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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
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My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
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You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.
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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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There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.
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People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends?
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May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.
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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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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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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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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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There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
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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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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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Every place on earth has a frequency. It's not good or bad, it's just the way it is, and if you can attune yourself to that frequency, then you can find comfort in that.
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The process of touring is always so weird to me. Once you've made the album, that's over, you move along.
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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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