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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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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.
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I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.
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My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
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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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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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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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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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I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.
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Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.
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Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.
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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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You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.
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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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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 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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Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.
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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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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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The possibility of disaster remains horrific to me. Like when you know everything's about to go wrong in a way that's not controllable or knowable.
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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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