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My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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Bloomington
Indiana
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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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It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.
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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 grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.
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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 don't like to say, Oh, I don't like this kind of music. I like to listen to it and try to see what people who like it get out of it.
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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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You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.
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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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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
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There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
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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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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 can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.
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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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Not everybody relates to pain, but if you can watch other people playacting it, you can absorb some of that vibe. It's like watching horror movies - you want to have the experience, but in a safe environment.
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In wrestling, people just throw each other around, possibly actually bleed, and are still friends in the locker room afterwards. But there's a real glee - a feeling goes up in the arena, especially on non-TV days. If it's just people in a room and somebody starts to bleed, that's very exciting.
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Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.
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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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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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