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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.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
Started
Hell
Guy
Goal
Really
Goats
Oriented
Sheer
Mountain

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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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The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
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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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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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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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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'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
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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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I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun.
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There are stylists I really love. I'm a huge Joan Didion fan - if I wrote something that she might like, then I'd feel very proud. I want the action to move as quickly as it does in A Book of Common Prayer, where one thing bonks right into another very quickly.
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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 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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This is the funny thing about me. People think John just comes up with all the ideas. I'm honored. People think I have a big old brain, but actually I am the sum of the people I work with.
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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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