Quotes by : John Darnielle

My feminism is what came squarely up against my faith. There's a lot of ecstatic post-patriarchal Christians....

I was writing poetry, and the Mountain Goats was an outgrowth of that.

I wish they'd conduct a national poll to find out who feels out of place and who doesn't. Just to get....

I think 'The Sunset Tree' is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which....

And then I went back into my room, locked into a sequence as perfect as a pattern, and I sat down on....

But resiliency only means that a thing retains its shape. That it doesn’t break, or lose its ability....

Opera combines pretty basic theater and poetry, but the storyline itself is actually quite poetic and,....

Most of my interests in terms of writing are dark, so it's discordant how much I try to lock into the....

When you punish a person for dreaming his dreamDon't expect him to thank or forgive you.

My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry.