John Darnielle Quotes

Usually I go to the studio to write lyrics and compose music. I try to be a dad as much as possible at home.

The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.

I like making sounds and putting it together, I'm not just a singer or a producer.

I think it's harder when you get older and you start having children because you've got to get up in the morning and you've got actual responsibilities instead of just writing music for yourself.

To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.

There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.

Record making is an extraordinary experience.

I love the magic of the studio.

As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

The biggest challenge is the chaos of parenthood, which has honestly been such a welcome challenge - bring it on, I say!

I adore acting; it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative thing in the world for me is being a mother.

Making records should be fun.

I don't think of work between albums. Of course, I go through regular life and I live and I experience different things, good and bad, and it does help me, but I don't think about writing or what I'm gonna do with whatever's going on while I'm going through it.

My main thing is just to keep writing. I've been doing some songwriting that's for my own record, I suppose.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

I was at the birth of my two girls.

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

Making music is fantastic.

An album is like a child and after a while I was ready to give birth!