It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.
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 DarnielleThere's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill and we're all haunted by something, and some people manage to find a way to ride it out so that they don't wind up needing extra help. So I think that "mental illness," as a term, is garbage. Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something.
John DarnielleI always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much.
John Darnielle