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I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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Bloomington
Indiana
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Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.
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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'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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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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My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
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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'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.
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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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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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I consider myself a lyricist first and foremost, but if you get something else out of what I do, that's fine too. I'm not sitting back here telling people how they have to take my stuff. We just want to play music, and hope that people like it.
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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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May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.
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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'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it.
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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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There are real teachers out there I don't pretend to have their mantle.
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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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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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It's easy to follow national politics and weigh in on social media, but if I'm tweeting stuff about Chatham County, no one cares.
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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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