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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
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
Records
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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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Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.
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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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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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People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends?
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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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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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I'm sort of a cavedweller: I miss my house, my yard, my kitchen, my wife. The trees. When I get home, I like to get down into my office neighborhood as soon as I can.
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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 grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.
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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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Not everybody relates to pain, but if you can watch other people playacting it, you can absorb some of that vibe. It's like watching horror movies - you want to have the experience, but in a safe environment.
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In death metal, a lot of guys are Eddie Van Halen disciples, but they take his style to really expressionistic places. It's a real pleasure for me to hear people pushing their craft.
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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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The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.
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You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.
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The possibility of disaster remains horrific to me. Like when you know everything's about to go wrong in a way that's not controllable or knowable.
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It makes me envious of anybody who can say truly that they don't care what anybody thinks of what they do, because I care a lot about the people who like my stuff.
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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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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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