John Darnielle Quotes

I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun. But I really love Durham more than any place I've ever been; some small towns can be really provincial and strangling, but Durham is the best city in the world.

I grew up in Montpelier, Indiana. It's a little town in the northeast corner of Indiana. It's a rural community; about two thousand people, a very much hometown U.S.A. kind of thing.

I grew up in Batavia, Ill., a small town out in the corn fields, west of Chicago. It was boring.

I grew up in a small town.

Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.

In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.

I grew up in the country. I am a real proud country boy, love getting back home.

I don't think my wheelhouse is comfortable in Wall Street. My wheelhouse is small-town America.

I was kind of sheltered. I grew up in Silsbee, Texas, a town of 3,000 people.

My mother raised me as a vegetarian, but when I turned 18, I decided to expand my palate.

I grew up in Le Mars, Iowa, and even though it's a great place to grow up and be raised as a kid, there wasn't a lot to do. It was fairly boring, and I think the way I either escaped the boredom or found a way to keep myself occupied was through movies and TV shows.

I avoid oily food. I am a vegetarian and it has helped me a lot.

I grew up in a really small town.

I grew up in New Jersey and played sports and rode my bike around. It was a really nice time - kids didn't have cellphones then - and you knew everyone in the town.

I spent my summers as a kid in an upstate New York hippie town called Saugerties.

Where I'm from, in the middle of the country, there were no clubs or parties. You had to make your own fun.

Around six years back, I turned vegetarian for health reasons. This doesn't mean I feel left out. I can try grass if you put some tabasco sauce on it.

Coming from a small town of Mexico, Missouri, we got 11,000 people. Never seen a celebrity.

John Candy gave me a Hard Rock Cafe jacket, which was awesome because I was really from a very rural, small town, and it seemed so exciting to me. I think my mom still has that jacket.

Like a lot of young people growing up in the middle of nowhere, I was desperate to leave my small town behind, but music reconnected me to my roots.

I come from a little town of 7,000 people, and everyone in my family played football.

You grow up in a small community, there's no outlet like New York or L.A.

I am from a really small town where theater wasn't super-cool, I would say. Maybe undervalued? So, I would drive into St. Louis, where it was cool. I would go to these all-boy schools where they needed girls in their shows, and I would do my shows there.

It's weird because I grew up in this town, so the things I really dug, I was constantly around them. Like Alyssa Milano - I had the biggest crush on her from TV, but I also saw her around town at parties. It's just funny.

I have seen rural life and met all kinds of people.