John Darnielle Quotes

When I was a kid, I used to try and hit every ball out of the ground. After playing one-day cricket and Test cricket, I never thought I'd get a chance to play like that again, ever. Twenty20 has given me the opportunity of playing like a kid again. I can just feel free and go out there and hit.

To be young was very heaven!

I asked my schoolmate Mary to write a letter to me. She was funny and full of life. She liked to run around her empty house without any clothes on, even once she was too old for that. Nothing embarrassed her. I admired that so much, because everything embarrassed me, and that hurt me. She loved to jump on her bed. She jumped on her bed for so many years that one afternoon, while I watched her jump, the seams burst. Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?

I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.

Running around when I was a kid was a really happy time; a time when getting home for dinner or for sleep were my only responsibilities.

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

I never realized until recently how much my life parallels Peter Pan.

I think that the best rock n' roll is about the spirit of being young, the feeling of being 16 and getting crazy with your friends and going out to a show and just that whole feeling.

So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!

I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.

In reality, I never want to grow up.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don't want to grow up.

There is a child in all of us.

I remember riding around with my friends with 'Ain't Even Done with the Night' cranked up and my windows down. Those were great days.

Nearly everyone says New York is their number one city in the world, don't they? It certainly is mine. But I feel like the ship sailed for me in terms of living in New York because I think you need to live there when you're in your 20s - when you can be poor and energetic and just don't care.

When I get back on snow, it's almost like I travel back in time to that feeling I used to have. That youthful, 6-year-old, 'nothing else matters,' 'you're sort of the center of the universe' kind of a feeling.

'Born to Run' was a mixture of things but mostly about youth and fantasies.

When I was 15, I still liked climbing trees and hiding in cupboards.

I remember, being young is a scary, wonderful feeling.

I didn't realize what a love affair I would have with big city life until I got to New York City. In a place like New York, granted it's utterly unique, you can get and have and do anything you want at any time of any day. It's bursting with culture and the cream of the crop in all walks of life. That sort of energy really excites me.

I first read 'Tom Sawyer' when I was in 8th grade, 13 years old. I realised since that Mark Twain just bottled what it felt like to be a child.

I still feel like a 19-year-old kid, man.

'In Ear Park' perfectly encapsulates the beauty of youth for me.