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A novel is a performance you have to plan.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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It's good to be young, but let's not kid ourselves/ It's better to pass on through those years and come out the other side/ With our hearts still beating/ Having stared down demons/ Come back breathing.
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Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.
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Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something. I believe in mental health care, but when we call people crazy, we exclude them from our circle.
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My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
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I just started writing stuff to kill time on summer evenings. This is why I'm always telling people who ask me what they need to do to succeed to give up, do something else.
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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 usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.
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I don't like to say, Oh, I don't like this kind of music. I like to listen to it and try to see what people who like it get out of it.
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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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The process of touring is always so weird to me. Once you've made the album, that's over, you move along.
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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'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
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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'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 suspect by the time the Beatles were writing the White Album, they didn't go, 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand!' I wanna play that! It's like if somebody asked you to put on the clothes you wore in high school. Well, no. No!
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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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I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.
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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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Every place on earth has a frequency. It's not good or bad, it's just the way it is, and if you can attune yourself to that frequency, then you can find comfort in that.
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People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends?
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