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I grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
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Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
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The moment where you know the thing you want is ridiculous and pompous and a terrible thing to want anyway. The direction in which you're headed is not the direction you want to go, yet you're going to head that way a while longer cause that's just the kind of person you are.
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My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
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From a very young age, I was the kind of kid you can just put anywhere and I'd still find stuff to be stoked about.
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I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.
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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 seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.
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There are real teachers out there I don't pretend to have their mantle.
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