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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
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
Important
Work
Guy

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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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May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.
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The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.
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There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
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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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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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I'm sort of a cavedweller: I miss my house, my yard, my kitchen, my wife. The trees. When I get home, I like to get down into my office neighborhood as soon as I can.
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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.
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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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I suspect by the time the Beatles were writing the White Album, they didn't go, 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand!' I wanna play that! It's like if somebody asked you to put on the clothes you wore in high school. Well, no. No!
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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
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The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
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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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I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world right now.
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You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.
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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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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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For me, moving is always a big opportunity. Its just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.
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I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.
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I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
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