I don't celebrate milestones and I don't do anniversary editions. It's not my style to reflect on accomplishments.
John DarnielleLabor for a lot of people has a negative connotation. But not for me. I always want to be working.
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 DarnielleI'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.
John DarnielleI'm sort of a cavedweller: I miss my house, my yard, my kitchen, my wife. The trees. When I get home, I like to get down into my office neighborhood as soon as I can.
John DarnielleI always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much. Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority. I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world right now.
John Darnielle