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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. "
Singers
Black
Dark
" 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. "
Champion
Growing Up
Growing
" 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. "
Name
Going
Project
" 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. "
You
Rock
Money
" 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? "
Place
Doing
Sitting
" I don't really write songs anymore. "
Really
Songs
Write
" 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. "
Big
Here
Lights
" I don't want to get myself in trouble - and I don't think I'm super important or anything - but I think it's so funny that when you look at the business and the way that people make decisions in their lives, whether they're in art or music or they're in industry, they forget that being unique is the answer. "
Music
Business
Funny
" I kind of miss writing songs the way that I used to write songs, in the sense that I would just sit down, and all these words that told a story would come out. There's one Bon Iver song called 'Blood Bank' that is more representative of an older lineage of songs, which I like and I sort of miss. But it just doesn't happen anymore for me. "
Down
Me
Song
" 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. "
House
Know
Music
" I'm a creature of comfort. "
Comfort
Creature
" I'm barely at home enough to enjoy the simple lifestyle that I want to live. "
Live
Enough
Home
" I'm just happy and proud to be playing music every day. Recognition is really cool, but it can also be kind of scary. "
Happy
Day
Be Kind
" 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. "
Know
Living
Play
" 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. "
You
Want
Time
" 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. "
Idea
Just
Illuminate
" 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. "
Three
Story
Together
" 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. "
Think
Best
Chill
" Just in general as a person, not necessarily as a songwriter, being in cities wasn't the right fit. I couldn't escape and be in the woods in 10 minutes if I needed to. I like that in Eau Claire, I can walk to a bar or a coffee shop, and there's city-ish things, but I can also drive and in eight minutes be at my parents' land outside of town. "
Coffee
Drive
Parents
" Our lives feel like these epochs, but really, we are dust in the wind. "
Wind
Our
Dust
" The falsetto stuff, it must be a reaction to the black gospel singers that I really enjoy listening to. "
Listening
Reaction
Stuff
" There's a few times in the past when I wrote a song, and I put the words together, and they were very clear pictures, and I felt like I was putting together a really good story. But I don't think I was ever really able to stay on that. What I've sort of developed lyrically is more about the sound of the vocals and what they are. "
Think
Past
Good
" 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. "
Business
Opportunity
Sick
" 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. "
School
Good
Work
" 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. "
Pain
Voice
Think
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