148 Quotes by Justin Vernon

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.

The easiest thing to feel is sadness.

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

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.

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.

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.

It’s dangerous when music gets cornered by anything.

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.”

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.”