“I write stuff down. I have a chalkboard in the kitchen where I will sc...” — John Darnielle Quote

“I write stuff down. I have a chalkboard in the kitchen where I will scrawl stuff down if I have a faint outline of an idea. And I'll go into my office or whatever. But that goes from format to format.”

“A song is fire. You react to it primally, instantly. You don't have to decide whether you like it, and you don't really have to sit down and think about it much after you're done listening to it. It really does run through you like wind.”

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

“I've done a lot of work in Hollywood and theatre, but to be honest, the biggest pleasure I've ever got is from the TV single plays I've written. It's a format where you don't mind saying, 'I want to tackle some important themes head on.'”

“Whether it's a TV show or a music video, the seed of the idea is what's driving my decisions, not the format or the outcome.”

“We wanted to interview people on the show, do variety, get the artists, the guests involved with us in our group. They wanted to keep the four guys together. We wanted to change the format.”