Maybe what we're actually talking about, though, is purity. You've mentioned before that that's perhaps what made For Emma so magnetic, that that's why you're so protective of it, and that that's why it's been so upsetting to be thrust into a the position where you're trying to communicate things that can't be said in a song. But can Bon Iver remain pure?
I wonder about that. I wonder if there will be another record, if there can be. One of things that I feel happy about is that I have it within me to make the call, to say the show goes on or the show doesn't go on. I won't let Bon Iver fail itself. So far, it's succeeded, so if we never make another record, it's okay with me. I'm still going to do something else. But I'm a romantic, I care about what it is. I care that it came from a pure place.
