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At once i knew i was not magnificent. -- Justin Vernon
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The way I see it is that I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict. I was always encouraged to be a free-thinking individual. I spent the first five years out of high school trying to make it work in Eau Claire, then I had to leave because there wasn't enough going on in town. -- Justin Vernon
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A lot of people are like, "How are you going to re-do it?" I'm not worried about what people are going to say because you know people are gonna be like, "It doesn't sound like this ... It sounds like this." I'm just going to make music that I know I'm supposed to make. -- Justin Vernon
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I feel like this thing [that] we're rocking back and forth like we're stuck in a snow bank and we all sort of know it. I feel like people are getting less and less pretentious and less and less hip - hopefully. -- Justin Vernon
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I don't know why you'd spend any of your time trying to remake something that you don't actually like. -- Justin Vernon
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No matter how much you care about a person, you have to be able to know that you can sit down at night and be happy with who you are without that person. That's really hard when you're a lonely emo kid. -- Justin Vernon
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The whole point of being happy is not feeling like you have a job. I'm sure there are days where you're at your job and you're like, "Oh my god, this is hard." -- Justin Vernon
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Emma is not a person; Emma is a place that you get stuck in; Emma is a pain that you cannot erase. -- Justin Vernon
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I can pour myself into Bon Iver. It's a thing about self- and mental discovery, and those are all important things. But it's not 148-shows-over-a-year-and-a-half important, though. It's a machine, and it's money, and you just get put on this indie rock cart, and it's embarrassing. -- Justin Vernon
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More and more into natural feelings rather than convoluted feelings or tastemaking or what have you. You always need critique, rock critics, but you can't take away people's taste. People are starting to, very slowly, do their own thing. -- Justin Vernon
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You're in a relationship because you need help, but that's not necessarily why you should be in a relationship. And that's skinny. It doesn't have weight. Skinny love doesn't have a chance because it's not nourished. -- Justin Vernon
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I'm a creature of comfort. -- Justin Vernon
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I'm just happy and proud to be playing music every day. Recognition is really cool, but it can also be kind of scary. -- Justin Vernon
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I just feel like why spend all my time doing something that makes me unhappy just to spend my time off thinking about how I have to go back to a job. It's such a vicious cycle that people get stuck in. But I'm also very lucky. I can't sit here too eagerly and say all that. -- Justin Vernon
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There are decent people that I know who don't know how to treat their partner. It's been built up so hard and so high that people are afraid. -- Justin Vernon
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I don't find inspiration by just sitting down with a guitar anymore. I lost that. I started being so interested in other kinds of music. -- Justin Vernon
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I'm catching up. I'm satisfied with the show. I think I want to get better and better and keep building. It took a while to figure out how to do it. I didn't know how it was gonna go. I was just like, "I better book a show and just see what happens." -- Justin Vernon
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Apple is not thinking different anymore, they are getting worse by the day. They've become bottom-dollar and you can see that transition easily. -- Justin Vernon
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I'm up in the woods, I'm down on my mind. I'm building a still, to slow down the time. -- Justin Vernon
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You never have to be scared to look to the future for opportunity. -- Justin Vernon
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It just didn't seem to fit the story and lineage, I guess. So I just sort of surrounded 'Blood Bank' with three other songs that were very different from one other, and they all kind of came together as a palette cleanser for the last record. And I'm really excited about it. -- Justin Vernon
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I didn't grow up with indie rock - I mean, I listened to bands that are considered indie rock, but I think that term is dead and uninteresting. -- Justin Vernon
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What happens between people is so misunderstood even between the people who are having the sex. -- Justin Vernon
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I know too many musicians that have to tour on the same 10 songs, and they burn out. They get back to their house, and they have no reason to write new music. They are music'd out. -- Justin Vernon
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It makes sense that that's part of the story and everything, but that's part of any story of any record - where was it record and how long and what were the people doing. I think people want to know where these events are made. That's why I like the word "record." -- Justin Vernon
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My favorite idea is doing an all-night tent show starring my friend's band Marijuana Deathsquads, where everyone would wear super-loud headphones, and there would be tons of subs and lights. It'd be really dope. -- Justin Vernon
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Even the indie rock world - which is supposed to be about truth and independence from corporate mindfulness or something - is totally subject to the paraphernalia of celebrity. -- Justin Vernon
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I began realizing that it wasn't important for me to concern myself with the perception of truth. -- Justin Vernon
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There's that whole thing that happens in relationships - you can love someone but, as soon as they stop loving you so unconditionally that they stop being themselves, it can be so dangerous. -- Justin Vernon
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There's a large opportunity for Bon Iver to be a special thing, even from a business standpoint - just trying to do cooler things. Every band sells t-shirts and plays certain auditoriums, but I'm sick of being like everyone else, because I'm not. -- Justin Vernon
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Those old Appalachian singers use a falsetto sometimes. They can change their voices to sound high or low or really scratchy. When you're singing, usually you're trying to express some kind of pain or joy. I think that voice allows me to do a lot more of that. -- Justin Vernon
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I've been singing since I was 12. And I think that all the information is finally starting to chill out. And I don't have to be fancy. I can just kind of do things and simplify things and try to be the best singer I can be. -- Justin Vernon
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I'm trying to be like, "Hey, dude, you're super happy, this is everything you've ever dreamed of - if you don't have somebody to hold hands with right now, everything's going to be OK, bro." -- Justin Vernon
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I'm really honored that Bon Iver gives me a platform to do whatever I want, but there's only so much time you can spend digging through yourself before you become insular. I'm not in a hurry to go back to that temperature. -- Justin Vernon
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I'm just living in Eau Claire, not really leaving for much. I go to the farmers market, go to the studio, go home and play with my cats. I don't know if I've ever been this happy, which is really awesome. -- Justin Vernon
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You should be able to have happiness. If you don't have that, then you're not really bringing your whole self to the relationship. -- Justin Vernon
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I don't want the big flashing lights and red carpet, like, 'Here comes another Bon Iver album!' I just want it to be my bedroom-y thing. But that'll take a while to figure out. -- Justin Vernon
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I've stolen music before, I don't know anyone who hasn't. But if you're gonna do that, I want you to be able to have an opportunity to know the real lyrics because I really hate it when people put up wrong lyrics online. -- Justin Vernon
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I think that's all I want in life, just like peace and be able to make music and like have happiness when it's time off. Spend time with people and family, whatever. -- Justin Vernon
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Some songs, some nights won't do anything for you, but people enjoy them and that's the job. The magic is finding those places to stand in the song and gain perspective. -- Justin Vernon
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Indie rock is just as susceptible - if not more susceptible - to all the gross things about people becoming total ass clowns in music, and only worrying about money and image. I'm not interested in being a part of that. -- Justin Vernon
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Real person. real name. I won't divulge too much, but it's not a fake name. And it's not a fake person. I guess that's the best answer I can say: It's not a fake name and it's not a fake person. But it's not her real name and it's not a real person either. -- Justin Vernon
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Honestly, before I settled on a name for the Bon Iver project in general, Chigliak was in the running for what I was going to name the band. -- Justin Vernon
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But in any situation with long love, I don't think it ever goes away fully. You just sort of learn where to keep it. -- Justin Vernon
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I could be worried about it if I had the wrong attitude. I don't think that I want my life and my daily occurrences to influence the direction. I don't want my daily life or my happiness to be a direct influence on music or my sadness. -- Justin Vernon
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I just understand ... I mean this may sound kind of bigheaded, bullheaded, or cumbersome, but when people say they've had a really deep experience with the record, like it caused a divorce or it like ... I've gotten all these stories. -- Justin Vernon
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It was all the things I wanted my music to be, but yet it wasn't grand and it wasn't obtuse - it wasn't overshooting, it wasn't undershooting, it was precise. The lyrics and the way that I was able to extract and excavate emotion within me. -- Justin Vernon
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Hopefully, most days, you're like, "This is sweet. I wake up and do the things that I do and I'm usually smiling." That's how my dad is with his job. -- Justin Vernon
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I am generalizing, of course, but in hip-hop, it's like you get this shine for using the word "pussy" a billion times, and I think that that's weirdly healthier than not doing it at all - even though I really hope it ends soon because, you know, how many decades can we do that? -- Justin Vernon
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For the most part, I've been influenced by black singers and singers I couldn't sound like. Whenever I tried to do a dark note or a bent note, I would just sound like Hootie And The Blowfish. -- Justin Vernon
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Growing up, all I did was write about the fact that I'm from where I'm from. I was a big champion of where I was from and Wisconsin in general, and the Midwest. -- Justin Vernon
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The falsetto stuff, it must be a reaction to the black gospel singers that I really enjoy listening to. -- Justin Vernon
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I'm trying to think about stuff like that: How can a show not be just a whining guy with a guitar. -- Justin Vernon
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I could go on and on and on about how we use the word 'place' in so many different ways. About how somebody might ask you 'Where you at?' And they're not asking where are you sitting, where are you living, they're asking: 'How are you doing? -- Justin Vernon
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I think I've always been aware of it with my music. I think growing up basically and having a lot to deal with and just slowing down and having something to say and something to retract from, I think I just knew that what I was doing was extremely honest. -- Justin Vernon
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Our lives feel like these epochs, but really, we are dust in the wind. -- Justin Vernon
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I have buried you in every place I've been. You keep ending up in my shaking hands. -- Justin Vernon
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I do think that our culture or our psyche as a country I guess, the world or whatever, we're due for a huge event. We're due for a little bit of a revolution or a spotlight or a movement. Something that feels large, something that feels like the 60s. Some sort of unification. -- Justin Vernon
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I can't see myself - I'm not really looking so far ahead in the future. I know that I kind of need to live in the country even though I'm not - my house isn't in the country right now. I bought a house, like a really tiny, cheap house in Wisconsin. -- Justin Vernon
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I'm super happy to see the record doing its thing and for people to like it, but for me, I had a great victory just as a person. I overstepped countless obstacles by creating that record. And the record's a metaphor for the personal steps I [took] throughout the past year. -- Justin Vernon
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I'm barely at home enough to enjoy the simple lifestyle that I want to live. -- Justin Vernon
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I'm not trying to say something super complicated. I allow myself to say certain things that mean a lot to me. -- Justin Vernon
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What a unique opportunity to be in town. I love townies. I value it, so to speak. -- Justin Vernon
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You never have to change your scene because you're always comfortable with evolving. -- Justin Vernon
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It's dangerous when music gets cornered by anything. -- Justin Vernon
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I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict. I was always encouraged to be a free-thinking individual. -- Justin Vernon
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Someday my pain will mark you -- Justin Vernon
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The reality is, if you're friends with somebody you should be able to be honest with them, and that honesty should be the biggest magnet to truth. -- Justin Vernon
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I knew I could never give up on music. Completely devoid of any religious or iconic context, I felt like music was handed down to me - this is what I was going to do. -- Justin Vernon
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With all the touring and distractions going on, I would get a sound together but I wouldn't have time to work on it. So I sat on the road with the sketches and saw how they revealed themselves emotionally. -- Justin Vernon
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I'm a pretty shy guy when it comes to girls and sex. -- Justin Vernon
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The easiest thing to feel is sadness. -- Justin Vernon
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The songs started as a soundscapes, and then came the words and music; each song took at least a year to make. -- Justin Vernon
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I really have to be in a specific headspace to even begin to illuminate an idea that would create another Bon Iver record, and I'm just not there. -- Justin Vernon
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Oftentimes I'll just overflow, and then I'll need to spend a week alone and not talk to anybody or call anybody. -- Justin Vernon
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As a fan of Kanye West, working with him is insane. -- Justin Vernon
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Irony is based on insecurity; people like to not like things because they don't understand them. -- Justin Vernon
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I don't really write songs anymore. -- Justin Vernon
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A lot of people change their band names because they're looking for a change of atmosphere. -- Justin Vernon