The only problem with conjuring people is they insist on getting paid, unlike a writer who would do a reading for nothing.
John Wesley HardingI took the name originally as a kind of disguise because I didn't want people to know I was about to embark on a s****y musical career that would last five months. And a lot of people took funny names back then.
John Wesley HardingNovels may have taken care of the emotional business for me, which has allowed music to be more emotional for me.
John Wesley HardingA friend of mine pointed out to me, "Why do you separate your writing and your music?" I got (writers) Rick Moody and Jonathan Ames to do the first one, and it just kind of gathered steam; then NPR picked it up. It is a nice way for me to marry both sides of my career, a move that's probably culminated in me dropping the name John Wesley Harding.
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