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John Darnielle quotes: The better I get at writing songs, the harder it seems to be to relate to people. But when I get on stage, I'm extremely happy. The better I get at writing songs, the harder it seems to be to relate to people. But when I get on stage, I'm extremely happy.
John Darnielle quotes: And then I played some music, old music, and it sounded awful, and I loved it, I loved it so much. And then I played some music, old music, and it sounded awful, and I loved it, I loved it so much.
John Darnielle quotes: I still get really excited looking at stuff that I've seen every day for 20 years. I still get really excited looking at stuff that I've seen every day for 20 years.
John Darnielle quotes: It is hard to leave home, and sometimes it takes a long time. * It is hard to leave home, and sometimes it takes a long time. *
John Darnielle quotes: I do have a romantic interest in outlasting everybody else. There's a sort of sad machismo to singer-songwriters, I think. I do have a romantic interest in outlasting everybody else. There's a sort of sad machismo to singer-songwriters, I think.
John Darnielle quotes: But people underestimate just how starved everybody is for some magic pathway back into childhood. But people underestimate just how starved everybody is for some magic pathway back into childhood.
John Darnielle quotes: Working efficiently while a movie played was second nature to her by now, more comfortable than silence. Working efficiently while a movie played was second nature to her by now, more comfortable than silence.
John Darnielle quotes: I imagined a quiet future in an imaginary world where nothing ever really happened but everything seemed charged with life. I imagined a quiet future in an imaginary world where nothing ever really happened but everything seemed charged with life.
John Darnielle quotes: I grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids. I grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.
John Darnielle quotes: Once you start talking to people, you find out there's a lot more wrestling fans than you think there are. Once you start talking to people, you find out there's a lot more wrestling fans than you think there are.
John Darnielle quotes: I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated. I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.
John Darnielle quotes: It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world. It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.
John Darnielle quotes: My favorite movies are gory horror films. I love Faulkner. I wanted to see the most painful things possible. My favorite movies are gory horror films. I love Faulkner. I wanted to see the most painful things possible.
John Darnielle quotes: People say friends don't destroy one another - what do they know about friends? People say friends don't destroy one another - what do they know about friends?
John Darnielle quotes: God is present in the sweeping gesture, but the devil is in the details. God is present in the sweeping gesture, but the devil is in the details.
John Darnielle quotes: It's hard to overstate how deep the need can get for things to make sense. It's hard to overstate how deep the need can get for things to make sense.
John Darnielle quotes: My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy. My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
John Darnielle quotes: Everyone in my orbit would have a terrible day: the arbiter of days has decreed it. Everyone in my orbit would have a terrible day: the arbiter of days has decreed it.
John Darnielle quotes: Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear. Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.
John Darnielle quotes: My son, who sees me almost every day of his life, will look at me and go, "I know that dude! I like that dude!" It's incredibly affirming. My son, who sees me almost every day of his life, will look at me and go, "I know that dude! I like that dude!" It's incredibly affirming.
John Darnielle quotes: Good things never last, bad things never die. Good things never last, bad things never die.
John Darnielle quotes: I grew up in Southern California, so the whole concept of a local music history is still kinda novel to me. I grew up in Southern California, so the whole concept of a local music history is still kinda novel to me.
John Darnielle quotes: It's not my style to be thinking about what a record is while I'm making it: I just write songs. It's not my style to be thinking about what a record is while I'm making it: I just write songs.
John Darnielle quotes: I'll tell you later" is a contingent claim that can be rendered false by any of several moves. I'll tell you later" is a contingent claim that can be rendered false by any of several moves.
John Darnielle quotes: I will go where I will goAnd I will jettison all dead weightAnd I will use these words for kindlingAnd I will sleep by the garden gate. I will go where I will go
And I will jettison all dead weight
And I will use these words for kindling
And I will sleep by the garden gate.
John Darnielle quotes: Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them. Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.
John Darnielle quotes: Silos are the great hidden constant of the industrialised world. Silos are the great hidden constant of the industrialised world.
John Darnielle quotes: 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. 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.
John Darnielle quotes: To me, creative work is labor, like any other kind of labor. It's got value, and it takes your time, and it's useful to people, depending. To me, creative work is labor, like any other kind of labor. It's got value, and it takes your time, and it's useful to people, depending.
John Darnielle quotes: A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different. A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different.
John Darnielle quotes: I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice. I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.
John Darnielle quotes: Their boots were black and shiny and your treasures gleamed like stars,Bones from deep down in the fertile crescent. Their boots were black and shiny and your treasures gleamed like stars,
Bones from deep down in the fertile crescent.
John Darnielle quotes: I expected him to leave then, because it always seems to me like nothing ever happens, but something did happen: he began to back up. I expected him to leave then, because it always seems to me like nothing ever happens, but something did happen: he began to back up.
John Darnielle quotes: The process of touring is always so weird to me. Once you've made the album, that's over, you move along. The process of touring is always so weird to me. Once you've made the album, that's over, you move along.
John Darnielle quotes: As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like. As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like.
John Darnielle quotes: The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge. The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.
John Darnielle quotes: There are new monsters now. There are new monsters now.
John Darnielle quotes: A band's first album's usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it. A band's first album's usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.
John Darnielle quotes: People bring you books, cheap paperbacks, when you're in the hospital: this was how I found out that I hate mystery novels. People bring you books, cheap paperbacks, when you're in the hospital: this was how I found out that I hate mystery novels.
John Darnielle quotes: The most remarkable thing about you standing in the doorway is that it's you, and that you're standing in the doorway. The most remarkable thing about you standing in the doorway is that it's you, and that you're standing in the doorway.
John Darnielle quotes: Cool parents, I thought, are the ones who know nothing. It made me feel a little sad for mine, but I didn't say any of this. Cool parents, I thought, are the ones who know nothing. It made me feel a little sad for mine, but I didn't say any of this.
John Darnielle quotes: I write for a lot of places, so I'm on a lot of promo lists. I write for a lot of places, so I'm on a lot of promo lists.
John Darnielle quotes: I think any real one-sheet for an album would say, 'Well, here's what I've been doing.' And that would be it. I think any real one-sheet for an album would say, 'Well, here's what I've been doing.' And that would be it.
John Darnielle quotes: A farmhouse has a way of feeling both timeless and impermanent without ever committing to either side. A farmhouse has a way of feeling both timeless and impermanent without ever committing to either side.
John Darnielle quotes: I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much. I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much.
John Darnielle quotes: I come from Chino, so all your threats are empty. I come from Chino, so all your threats are empty.
John Darnielle quotes: It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other. It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.
John Darnielle quotes: I don't have a favorite drink. I don't do favorites of anything, practically. I don't have a favorite drink. I don't do favorites of anything, practically.
John Darnielle quotes: People do all sorts of things impulsively and follow those impulses into strange places. People do all sorts of things impulsively and follow those impulses into strange places.
John Darnielle quotes: I'd played with Jon Wurster as a duo just for a lark. I'd played with Jon Wurster as a duo just for a lark.
John Darnielle quotes: It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it. It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.
John Darnielle quotes: One or two people have named their children after characters in my songs. That's pretty intense. One or two people have named their children after characters in my songs. That's pretty intense.
John Darnielle quotes: It's just being who you want to be, even if you are a poor kid making loud musicabout being unhappy! It's just being who you want to be, even if you are a poor kid making loud music
about being unhappy!
John Darnielle quotes: Back in the '90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle. Back in the '90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.
John Darnielle quotes: You should avoid seeing too much of yourself anywhere: in the outside world, in others, in the imagined worlds that give you shelter. You should avoid seeing too much of yourself anywhere: in the outside world, in others, in the imagined worlds that give you shelter.
John Darnielle quotes: Either inventing internal worlds or having no world at all to inhabit, Either inventing internal worlds or having no world at all to inhabit,
John Darnielle quotes: There are so many ways to respond to music besides feeling like someone's communicating with you. It gives me a charge. There are so many ways to respond to music besides feeling like someone's communicating with you. It gives me a charge.
John Darnielle quotes: When you punish a person for dreaming his dreamDon't expect him to thank or forgive you. When you punish a person for dreaming his dream
Don't expect him to thank or forgive you.
John Darnielle quotes: 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. 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.
John Darnielle quotes: For me, moving is always a big opportunity. It's just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up. For me, moving is always a big opportunity. It's just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.
John Darnielle quotes: I let the barren-void melody of his voice lilt its way through the inattentive chambers of my brain. I let the barren-void melody of his voice lilt its way through the inattentive chambers of my brain.
John Darnielle quotes: As an idea occurs to me, I'll either follow it or not, but I'm more instinctive than master-planner about stuff. As an idea occurs to me, I'll either follow it or not, but I'm more instinctive than master-planner about stuff.
John Darnielle quotes: I crave music that'll sort of hurtle me into space and release me up there. I crave music that'll sort of hurtle me into space and release me up there.
John Darnielle quotes: When you're born into a showbiz family, the deck is stacked against you. When you're born into a showbiz family, the deck is stacked against you.
John Darnielle quotes: I still can't manage to keep a journal, and people have been telling me to since the fourth grade. I still can't manage to keep a journal, and people have been telling me to since the fourth grade.
John Darnielle quotes: Sometimes I do 'So Desperate' solo in the middle of the set. I really love to sing that song. Sometimes I do 'So Desperate' solo in the middle of the set. I really love to sing that song.
John Darnielle quotes: You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too. You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.
John Darnielle quotes: I was little the first time I heard the term "ghost town"; I fell immediately in love. I was little the first time I heard the term "ghost town"; I fell immediately in love.
John Darnielle quotes: 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. 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.
John Darnielle quotes: I think 'The Sunset Tree' is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important. I think 'The Sunset Tree' is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.
John Darnielle quotes: Who knows the secrets of anybody's heart. Who knows the secrets of anybody's heart.
John Darnielle quotes: 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. 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.
John Darnielle quotes: One of the great things about wrestling is how it interrogates this silly idea that you have one authentic self. One of the great things about wrestling is how it interrogates this silly idea that you have one authentic self.
John Darnielle quotes: I had a funny feeling that day, all day: something about how much I liked my life and where I was with it. I had a funny feeling that day, all day: something about how much I liked my life and where I was with it.
John Darnielle quotes: I watched 'Fame,' and I just love the choreography. It just gives me a place to be in another zone. I watched 'Fame,' and I just love the choreography. It just gives me a place to be in another zone.
John Darnielle quotes: There is something fierce and starved about first ideas. There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
John Darnielle quotes: A Cat Stevens record isn't just Cat Stevens' ideas. It's Cat Stevens and all the musicians who play with Cat Stevens, right? A Cat Stevens record isn't just Cat Stevens' ideas. It's Cat Stevens and all the musicians who play with Cat Stevens, right?
John Darnielle quotes: Your intelligence doesn't override your desire to destroy yourself. Your intelligence doesn't override your desire to destroy yourself.
John Darnielle quotes: Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world. Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
John Darnielle quotes: I don't sit down and say I'm going to write a song about this or that. They are never mapped out. I don't sit down and say I'm going to write a song about this or that. They are never mapped out.
John Darnielle quotes: Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill. Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.
John Darnielle quotes: It isn't really much of a mystery, this occasional need I have to comfort my father. I did something terrible to his son once. It isn't really much of a mystery, this occasional need I have to comfort my father. I did something terrible to his son once.
John Darnielle quotes: I want to make sure people know I don't think I have any magic powers. I just have a story that I share. I want to make sure people know I don't think I have any magic powers. I just have a story that I share.
John Darnielle quotes: I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am. I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.
John Darnielle quotes: Wrestling's a form of expression, and it expresses vastness. Wrestling's a form of expression, and it expresses vastness.
John Darnielle quotes: It's in the nature of the landscape to change, and it's in the nature of people to help the process along... It's in the nature of the landscape to change, and it's in the nature of people to help the process along...
John Darnielle quotes: Who doesn't want to rise above the obstacles in his pathway? Who wouldn't want to go down in flames? Who doesn't want to rise above the obstacles in his pathway? Who wouldn't want to go down in flames?
John Darnielle quotes: I knew she wanted to ask what I was doing, but I had the advantage. Nobody liked to see me speak. I knew she wanted to ask what I was doing, but I had the advantage. Nobody liked to see me speak.
John Darnielle quotes: I used to break three or four strings a night, and the show would be over because I didn't know how to change the strings. I used to break three or four strings a night, and the show would be over because I didn't know how to change the strings.
John Darnielle quotes: think I was inspired by a commercial for an old board game called Stay Alive. think I was inspired by a commercial for an old board game called Stay Alive.
John Darnielle quotes: If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them. If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them.
John Darnielle quotes: I didn't have a whole lot of friends anyway, so I didn't feel abandoned so much as reminded. I didn't have a whole lot of friends anyway, so I didn't feel abandoned so much as reminded.
John Darnielle quotes: I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records. I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
John Darnielle quotes: Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I don't feel everybody can connect to. Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I don't feel everybody can connect to.
John Darnielle quotes: I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway. I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.
John Darnielle quotes: When I'm writing a song, I'm just making stuff up as I go along. When I'm writing a song, I'm just making stuff up as I go along.
John Darnielle quotes: To me, the only good reason to be touring is if you still have something good to share instead of just revisiting past glories. To me, the only good reason to be touring is if you still have something good to share instead of just revisiting past glories.
John Darnielle quotes: When all my friends insisted that they were feeling jaded, it struck me as an affected pose. To me, everything is always new. When all my friends insisted that they were feeling jaded, it struck me as an affected pose. To me, everything is always new.
John Darnielle quotes: I don't celebrate milestones and I don't do anniversary editions. It's not my style to reflect on accomplishments. I don't celebrate milestones and I don't do anniversary editions. It's not my style to reflect on accomplishments.
John Darnielle quotes: I was writing poetry, and the Mountain Goats was an outgrowth of that. I was writing poetry, and the Mountain Goats was an outgrowth of that.

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