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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 hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.
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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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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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Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.
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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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The fact that somebody's telling you a story about people who didn't exist doesn't make the experience of the story any less real in your heart and mind.
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Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority.
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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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My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
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Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.
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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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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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Human beings are selfish by nature. Everything that happens to a child, you immediately grab your own child and say, I will never let that happen to you.
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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'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it.
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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 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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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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I usually kind of can't wait until my records leak. Back in the day, you could give people tapes, but you can't do that anymore, because it would be available to everyone on the planet within an hour.
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Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.
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