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I don't even want to be rich I just want to be alone. — John Darnielle

And then I played some music, old music, and it sounded awful, and I loved it, I loved it so much. — John Darnielle

I still get really excited looking at stuff that I've seen every day for 20 years. — John Darnielle

But people underestimate just how starved everybody is for some magic pathway back into childhood. — John Darnielle

They were smoking cigarettes in the deliberate self-conscious way of smoking teenagers: — John Darnielle

I grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids. — John Darnielle

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated. — John Darnielle

It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world. — John Darnielle

People say friends don't destroy one another - what do they know about friends? — John Darnielle

I'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it. — John Darnielle

God is present in the sweeping gesture, but the devil is in the details. — John Darnielle

It's hard to overstate how deep the need can get for things to make sense. — John Darnielle

You could hear, in the questions they asked and how they asked them, that there were right answers, things they wanted to hear. — John Darnielle

I think listening to a lot of Lou Reed when I was a teenager is what encouraged me to just sing however felt good to me. — John Darnielle

I just started going to shows. I don't know how submerged I am: I feel guilty that I don't get out more, but I really like being inside the house. — John Darnielle

Everyone in my orbit would have a terrible day: the arbiter of days has decreed it. — John Darnielle

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

Good things never last, bad things never die. — John Darnielle

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can. — John Darnielle

I think it's a misconception that metal's about anger, obviously. — John Darnielle

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die. — John Darnielle

I used to assume no one would care, but I do think now I've written songs that are useful to people having dark hours. — John Darnielle

I grew up in Southern California, so the whole concept of a local music history is still kinda novel to me. — John Darnielle

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. — John Darnielle

It's not my style to be thinking about what a record is while I'm making it: I just write songs. — John Darnielle

Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen. — John Darnielle

May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice. — John Darnielle

I knew she wanted to ask what I was doing, but I had the advantage. Nobody liked to see me speak. — John Darnielle

The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks. — John Darnielle

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

Who doesn't want to rise above the obstacles in his pathway? Who wouldn't want to go down in flames? — John Darnielle

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

think I was inspired by a commercial for an old board game called Stay Alive. — John Darnielle

They don't know they have expectations, but I show them by counterexample what their expectations were. — John Darnielle

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

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

Wrestling's a form of expression, and it expresses vastness. — John Darnielle

As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like. — John Darnielle

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

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. — John Darnielle

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

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. — John Darnielle

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

I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice. — John Darnielle

Their boots were black and shiny and your treasures gleamed like stars,
Bones from deep down in the fertile crescent. — John Darnielle

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

The process of touring is always so weird to me. Once you've made the album, that's over, you move along. — John Darnielle

The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge. — John Darnielle

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

Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them. — John Darnielle

People want you to play the songs they know. I try not to reflect too much, and I don't really like to focus too much on myself. — John Darnielle

I'll tell you later" is a contingent claim that can be rendered false by any of several moves. — John Darnielle

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

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

I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records. — John Darnielle

I love Joan Didion, but I love her writing. I don't think meeting her could solve my problems or make me understand the world better. — John Darnielle

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

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you. — John Darnielle

Who knows the secrets of anybody's heart. — John Darnielle

I crave music that'll sort of hurtle me into space and release me up there. — John Darnielle

When you're born into a showbiz family, the deck is stacked against you. — John Darnielle

I still can't manage to keep a journal, and people have been telling me to since the fourth grade. — John Darnielle

Sometimes I do 'So Desperate' solo in the middle of the set. I really love to sing that song. — John Darnielle

To me, everything is always new. People involved in my personal life make fun of me a lot for not being jaded. — John Darnielle

You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too. — John Darnielle

I was little the first time I heard the term "ghost town"; I fell immediately in love. — John Darnielle

When you punish a person for dreaming his dream
Don't expect him to thank or forgive you. — John Darnielle

No way of counting my blessings. No way for anyone to count that high. — John Darnielle

I think 'The Sunset Tree' is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important. — John Darnielle

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

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

One of the great things about wrestling is how it interrogates this silly idea that you have one authentic self. — John Darnielle

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

I watched 'Fame,' and I just love the choreography. It just gives me a place to be in another zone. — John Darnielle

Sometimes I feel very young, and other times I feel like the side of a ship that's got a bunch of layers of mussels and barnacles on it. — John Darnielle

There is something fierce and starved about first ideas. — John Darnielle

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

Your intelligence doesn't override your desire to destroy yourself. — John Darnielle

Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world. — John Darnielle

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

I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I put other things aside. — John Darnielle

It had a soundtrack. All screams. — John Darnielle

Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive. — John Darnielle

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

Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I don't feel everybody can connect to. — John Darnielle

I've written a lot about southern California, but I don't use the same characters. Leave the people in the songs in the songs, is my philosophy. — John Darnielle

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

When I'm writing a song, I'm just making stuff up as I go along. — John Darnielle

I always want to try and see what the appeal is in anything. It's the healthiest and most honest approach. — John Darnielle

The studio's a collaborative environment. I just try to let people bring their own ideas to the songs and see what happens. — John Darnielle

I didn't have a whole lot of friends anyway, so I didn't feel abandoned so much as reminded. — John Darnielle

I don't write my own publicity materials, I just read 'em and give 'em the OK. — John Darnielle

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

I don't celebrate milestones and I don't do anniversary editions. It's not my style to reflect on accomplishments. — John Darnielle

I was writing poetry, and the Mountain Goats was an outgrowth of that. — John Darnielle

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

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

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

My songs tend to sprint toward some epiphany and then explode. — John Darnielle

I let the barren-void melody of his voice lilt its way through the inattentive chambers of my brain. — John Darnielle