Normal adult shopping is something I will never actually do, because it's no more possible for me to go shopping like normal adults do than it is for a man with no legs to wake up one day and walk. I can't miss shopping like you'd miss things you once had. I miss it in a different way. I miss it like you would miss a train.
John DarnielleI consider myself a lyricist first and foremost, but if you get something else out of what I do, that's fine too. I'm not sitting back here telling people how they have to take my stuff. We just want to play music, and hope that people like it.
John DarnielleI start writing, pull whatever images happen to occur to me and make up a story, instead of starting with details that are real and I know of and going from there.
John DarnielleIt usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.
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