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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.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
Works
Hard
Children
Things
Delighted
Life
Strategy
Delight
Tired
Disease

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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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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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You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.
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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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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 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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I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.
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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 think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young, and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else.
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