"And it was that way until late high school, when I probably entered that horrible limp-sounding realm of agnosticism where, for me, it was, "I'd love to be a believer. I would love to be a fanatic." To me, that looks awesome, to have that certainty of belief in anything. Not just religiously but politically, anything you could actually say, "This is exactly what I believe, and it was all written down by somebody else, and I accept every last word of it.""
-John Darnielle, taken from the new interview on Pitchfork.
http://pitchfork.com/news/36406-john-darnielle-tells-the-story-behind-the-mountain-goats-biblical-new-lp/ Man, it's nice to know sometimes that there are other people out there who have felt the same things as you.