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This is the funny thing about me. People think John just comes up with all the ideas. I'm honored. People think I have a big old brain, but actually I am the sum of the people I work with.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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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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You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.
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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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I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
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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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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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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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My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
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Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.
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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'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.
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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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There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
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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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When all my friends insisted that they were feeling jaded, it struck me as an affected pose. To me, everything is always new.
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I think The Sunset Tree is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.
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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's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.
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I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.
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