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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
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
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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'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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Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted.
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People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.
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Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
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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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You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.
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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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This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.
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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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The South actually has a very strong tradition of activism. The civil rights movement came from down here! It was black activists demanding that their voices be heard. People say these are red states. No they're not!
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For me, moving is always a big opportunity. Its just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.
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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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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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Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.
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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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Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.
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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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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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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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