John Darnielle Quotes

The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.

I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.

I didn't have any money. I had a sense of terrible loss. But what I also had was a fire in my belly. I wasn't going to go back to waiting tables. I felt I had to be better at fronting a band.

I knew if I stayed in London my whole life would be dancing. I'd won almost every major title you can. I thought 'This really isn't my passion. I really want to sing,' and I knew I wouldn't be able to if I stayed there.

I've done many ads because that's my new career. It's an inspiring extension for my mind.

Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.

I couldn't stand still at a desk for another year. I wanted to go out there and make films.

One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.

There is life after acting.

When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.

I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.

I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over.

I always wanted to do something completely different.

I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.

One fine day, I realised that advertising was not my calling. I closed shop and plunged into theatre.

When I was younger, I was addicted to the idea of becoming a rapper.

I never imagined myself being a rapper.

I am going to branch out to acting and do more modeling.

I don't have to forsake my career as a musician. I know how to write songs - that's not going to leave me. But I think it's good to explore some other avenues.

I chose when I was 30 to change my life entirely and become a director and sit in the dark and that's what I love doing.

I guess I did go through my phase where I wanted to be a rapper. I made music, but I was never really good at it.

When I came back to Hong Kong in 1992, I decided to pursue a new career challenge.

I was having a nice anonymous little time as a writer. I really was on the writer path. I was sort of minding my own business. I loved making a living in music.

I didn't want to be an artist in the same place I worked. You could always have people that might feel like you would do something more for yourself.

[Making music] only turned into this weird job in the last year or so. Once I figured that out, I was having a blast.