You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.
John DarnielleWhen you punish a person for dreaming his dream, don't expect him to thank or forgive you.
John DarnielleI don't like to say, "Oh, I don't like this kind of music." I like to listen to it and try to see what people who like it get out of it.
John DarnielleIt's a clichรฉ to state that one should think like a child, but it's clear that kids know something that the world tries to make you unlearn later in life.
John DarnielleI have a hunger for justice, but art is a place I've always enjoyed being able to be free - to live in worlds that you don't have to be thinking about that all the time. I don't see myself writing Upton Sinclair books. My books are to entertain, although to me, entertainment is to make you feel sadness or to get in touch with your own pain - or fear, or to remember somebody who has gone missing from your life. That's my calling.
John Darnielle