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John Darnielle (/dɑːrˈniːl/ dar-NEEL; born March 16, 1967) is an American musician and novelist best known as the primary (and often solitary) member of the American band the Mountain Goats, for which he is the writer, composer, guitarist, pianist, and vocalist.

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As important as politics are to me, the life and the spirit of people's emotions are much more important. People live real lives where they love and grieve and feel pain and joy and that is a whole separate sphere. All that political stuff, I believe in it strongly, but not as strongly as I believe that at some point you or someone is going to need a song to sit with and comfort them in a hard time.

Believe, Pain, Real, Song, Sphere, Strongly

There are so many ways to respond to music besides feeling like someone's communicating with you. It gives me a charge.

Charge, Communicating, Feeling, Feelings, Giving, Way

Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.

Everybody, Experiences, Reality, Way

Men tend to dominate whatever public discourse they participate in, and another big part of feminism is to let women have their say. Men's voices can be welcome at the table, but there is a time and a place, and maybe it's now, for men to make a little less noise, make their needs less known, and listen to the needs of others.

Big, Feminism, Men, Table, Welcome, Women

I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.

Distinctive, Found, Hearing, People, Voice

Anger is preverbal, so, by the time you're using words to express an angry feeling, you're already imposing loads of structure on that primal experience.

Angry, Feelings, Preverbal, Structure, Using Words

People always talk about good time rock and roll, Chuck Berry or whatever, like this liberating force for feeling good. But what I need in my life is to be liberated into feeling bad. Not sad. I have plenty of sad. What I need is a place where I can spray anger in sparks like a gnarled piece of electrical cable. Just be mad at stuff and soak in the helplessness.

Feeling, People, Plenty, Rock, Rock And Roll, Rocks

I'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it.

Goal, Guy, Hell, Mountain, Sheer

I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for experimental novels, I might really be onto something.

Experimental, Novel, Onto, People, Real, Stories

It's impossible to be content all the time - you have to learn to be content in places where you're unhappy and owning your emotions, whatever they are.

Unhappy, Impossible, Emotion, Emotions

I think it's a misconception that metal's about anger, obviously.

Anger, Metals, Misconception, Obviously, Think, Thinking

I'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.

Home, Wife, Office, House, Neighborhood

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

Albums, Day, Jobs, Serious, Trying

From a very young age, I was the kind of kid you can just put anywhere and I'd still find stuff to be stoked about.

Age, Kid, Kids, Stoked, Stuff

You're not really going to know what a place is like 'til you've lived there a few years - you sort of just have to go with your gut.

Gut, Guts, Lived, Place, Til, Years

Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted.

Kind, Know, People, Real

The fact that somebody's telling you a story about people who didn't exist doesn't make the experience of the story any less real in your heart and mind.

Heart, Make, Mind, People, Real

I 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.

Couple, Exhaustive, History, Right, World, Worry

I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I put other things aside.

Aside, Down, Energy, Ideas, Sit, Writing

It makes me envious of anybody who can say truly that they don't care what anybody thinks of what they do, because I care a lot about the people who like my stuff.

Care, Like, People, Thinking, Thinks

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