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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.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.
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Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something. I believe in mental health care, but when we call people crazy, we exclude them from our circle.
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Anything that is within you is a gift. To be able to take possession of that and say, Whatever it is, I am bigger than it, is to learn to cherish even the hard and painful things.
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It's impossible to be content all the time - you have to learn to be content in places where you're unhappy and owning your emotions, whatever they are.
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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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There are real teachers out there I don't pretend to have their mantle.
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Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.
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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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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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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 reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
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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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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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Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.
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I usually kind of can't wait until my records leak. Back in the day, you could give people tapes, but you can't do that anymore, because it would be available to everyone on the planet within an hour.
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Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.
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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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Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted.
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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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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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