Justin Vernon Quotes

What a unique opportunity to be in town. I love townies. I value it, so to speak.

Oftentimes I'll just overflow, and then I'll need to spend a week alone and not talk to anybody or call anybody.

As a fan of Kanye West, working with him is insane.

I'm just happy and proud to be playing music every day. Recognition is really cool, but it can also be kind of scary.

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.

Someday my pain will mark you

I don't know why you'd spend any of your time trying to remake something that you don't actually like.

Our lives feel like these epochs, but really, we are dust in the wind.

The easiest thing to feel is sadness.

I have buried you in every place I've been. You keep ending up in my shaking hands.

A lot of people change their band names because they're looking for a change of atmosphere.

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.

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.

You never have to change your scene because you're always comfortable with evolving.

Irony is based on insecurity; people like to not like things because they don't understand them.

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.

At once i knew i was not magnificent.

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.

I'm not trying to say something super complicated. I allow myself to say certain things that mean a lot to me.

I'm barely at home enough to enjoy the simple lifestyle that I want to live.

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.

I began realizing that it wasn't important for me to concern myself with the perception of truth.

What happens between people is so misunderstood even between the people who are having the sex.

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.

The falsetto stuff, it must be a reaction to the black gospel singers that I really enjoy listening to.

It's dangerous when music gets cornered by anything.

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.

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.

You never have to be scared to look to the future for opportunity.

I'm a pretty shy guy when it comes to girls and sex.

I don't really write songs anymore.

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.

Emma is not a person; Emma is a place that you get stuck in; Emma is a pain that you cannot erase.

I'm trying to think about stuff like that: How can a show not be just a whining guy with a guitar.

I'm up in the woods, I'm down on my mind. I'm building a still, to slow down the time.

The songs started as a soundscapes, and then came the words and music; each song took at least a year to make.

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.

I'm a creature of comfort.