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

I think youth will always be connected to the strongest music at the time because... I don't want to use the word 'tribal,' but there was this sort of familial affiliation that people would feel with the music they were listening to.

From John Darnielle

A song is fire. You react to it primally, instantly. You don't have to decide whether you like it, and you don't really have to sit down and think about it much after you're done listening to it. It really does run through you like wind.

From 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.

From John Darnielle

People think of me as a nice person because, I think, I have grown into a nice person.

From John Darnielle

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

From John Darnielle

Younger songwriters will ask me, 'What did you do?' And it's like, 'Well, I worked a day job, and I didn't stake anything. I didn't quit my day job. I didn't have any hopes at all. I just did the thing that I believed in, and I waited a long time.'

From John Darnielle