I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun.
John DarnielleI'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.
John DarnielleIt makes me envious of anybody who can say truly that they don't care what anybody thinks of what they do, because I care a lot about the people who like my stuff.
John DarnielleIt's an important moment as a reader, I think, when you can forget the question of whether you need to know what happened. Some people really want hard explanations. I'm the other way. I like mysteries. I don't want to frustrate people. I don't want people to feel like they got no answers, but I want to approach the mystery and sit with it.
John Darnielle