John Darnielle quotes

You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday and you're 17 years old. (John Darnielle)
I think The Sunset Tree is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.
John Darnielle
I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young, and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else.
John Darnielle
It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.
John Darnielle
One or two people have named their children after characters in my songs. That's pretty intense.
John Darnielle
A band's first album's usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.
John Darnielle
Life is entirely unthinkable without any of the creative arts, and they're all a continuum - the force in question is creativity, not its mode of expression.
John Darnielle
At 23, you can completely, literally reinvent yourself if you want to.
John Darnielle
I always assumed people wanted to hear me tell stories, but then I had 'The Sunset Tree.' It turned out, my own stories were the ones that registered with people the hardest.
John Darnielle
Back in the '90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.
John Darnielle
People involved in my personal life make fun of me a lot for not being jaded. (John Darnielle)
I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much.
John Darnielle
For me, moving is always a big opportunity. Its just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.
John Darnielle
Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.
John Darnielle