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Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
Women
Men
Trash
World
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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 think The Sunset Tree is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.
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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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Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.
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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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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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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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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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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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There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
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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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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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I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.
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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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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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I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.
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It's good to be young, but let's not kid ourselves/ It's better to pass on through those years and come out the other side/ With our hearts still beating/ Having stared down demons/ Come back breathing.
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A novel is a performance you have to plan.
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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'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
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