I got married a very long time ago… Ten years at this point. [Applause.] Thank you very much, it’s fucking awesome. I have to tell you, you know, in our culture, okay—[Franklin tells him to tune his guitar]—I’m going to go off on a—[More tuning imperatives]—In our—no, no! I have a thought in my head right now. And I think it’s worth sharing for the one guy who might conceivably become that fucking guy, who’s always talking like, you know, “Oh, yeah, you know, once you get that ball-and-chain running you’re in the”—shut the fuck up. It’s awesome. It’s two people professing love for each other and trying to make two things become one awesome fucking powerful love force. It’s rad. Anybody who says anything bad about it—I understand. If yours didn’t work out, cool, I can dig it—lot of hatred in there, right. But the whole deal about how there’s something that somehow indentures a person to another is just, like… patriarchal nonsense….
— John Darnielle (via foolishoptimism)