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… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People say friends don't destroy one another - what do they know about friends? — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I don't like to say, "Oh, I don't like this kind of music." I like to listen to it and try to… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
People want you to play the songs they know. I try not to reflect too much, and I don't really like to… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
This is the funny thing about me. People think John just comes up with all the ideas. I'm honored. People think I… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something. I believe in mental health care, but when we call people "crazy,"… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
People will complain that they don't want to wait around for lightning to strike, but why not? If you invest yourself in… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
In death metal, a lot of guys are Eddie Van Halen disciples, but they take his style to really expressionistic places. It's… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
In wrestling, people just throw each other around, possibly actually bleed, and are still friends in the locker room afterwards. But there's… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I consider myself a lyricist first and foremost, but if you get something else out of what I do, that's fine too.… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
The South actually has a very strong tradition of activism. The civil rights movement came from down here! It was black activists… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
The only people who are afraid of file sharing are the people whose albums are so dull presentation-wise that nobody cares about… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
What's funny is that people think, "Well there has to be something more than wrestling, because wrestling has such an absurd quality… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I'm finding things out about myself as a person - as a writer - as I write, and so are the people… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
It's an important moment as a reader, I think, when you can forget the question of whether you need to know what… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
People always talk about good time rock and roll, Chuck Berry or whatever, like this liberating force for feeling good. But what… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill and we're all haunted by something, and some people manage to… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
My family, before the divorce, moved several times, and after that we moved a whole bunch more times, and so I don't… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
People involved in my personal life make fun of me a lot for not being jaded. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Labor for a lot of people has a negative connotation. But not for me. I always want to be working. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I did a lot of music criticism. I don't think much of it was any good. I think I wanted to show… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I usually kind of can't wait until my records leak. Back in the day, you could give people tapes, but you can't… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Not everybody relates to pain, but if you can watch other people playacting it, you can absorb some of that vibe. It's… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Our [former] governor [Pat McCrory] was supposed to be a moderate, but he found himself beholden to people who have much more… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way.… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
As important as politics are to me, the life and the spirit of people's emotions are much more important. People live real… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
People don't tend to notice, but in the past 10 years especially there's been a lot of growth in how I write… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I just started writing stuff to kill time on summer evenings. This is why I'm always telling people who ask me what… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I don't write my own publicity materials, I just read 'em and give 'em the OK. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
“But secret agents, like God, only give signs to their confidants. They are also very cruel and even unhappy at times. At any rate,… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
“I am heavy in his arms, and I feel safe there, but I am lost, and I need constantly to be shoring up the… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
If you get into a fight and somebody punches you, you get two feelings. One: That really hurts. Two: That relief in the realness… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
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… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something. I believe in mental health care, but when we call people "crazy," we exclude… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
“But resiliency only means that a thing retains its shape. That it doesn’t break, or lose its ability to function. It doesn’t mean a… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
“One thing I’ve learned is it’s better sometimes, in the weeds, to resist the temptation to stand up and follow the compass. *” — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
People always talk about good time rock and roll, Chuck Berry or whatever, like this liberating force for feeling good. But what I need… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
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