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I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.

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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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I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.
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Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
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The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young, and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else.
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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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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
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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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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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Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.
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People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends?
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Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and then when you get a good angle, you throw it through a window to see what happens.
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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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