"2023. We'd broken up 5 years ago. It was supposed to be a test. Could we make it this time? Separate beds, same room in Miami. A wedding weekend. Somebody else's wedding. She was still as beautiful, and she sang for me while I grieved what was yet to happen. Come on, skinny love, just last the year. It will always be our song. We were never going to last, no matter how many times we tried, again. I hate her for the crippled heart I have."

"A cabin. Wisconsin. A breakup. An album. I respect the commitment to the bit."

"Justin Vernon recorded this alone in a cabin in Wisconsin after a breakup. I have listened to it through three of my own breakups and one that wasn't mine but felt like it was. I understand the impulse."