If you're standing in the middle of a ring and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.
John DarnielleWhen all my friends insisted that they were feeling jaded, it struck me as an affected pose. To me, everything is always new.
John DarnielleI think The Sunset Tree is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.
John Darnielle