John Darnielle - There's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill and we're a

There's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill and we're all haunted by something, and some people manage to find a way to ride it out so that they don't wind up needing extra help. So I think that "mental illness," as a term, is garbage. Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something.

- John Darnielle

source: "The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.