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We might die from medication but we sure killed all the pain — Conor Oberst

So much of listening to lyrically driven music is projecting your own feelings and experiences into the music. — Conor Oberst

There's nothing that the road cannot heal — Conor Oberst

The drunk kids, the catholics They're all about the same They're waiting for something Hoping to be saved — Conor Oberst

I started to sink like the moon tends to do if you stare at it too long Then you blink and it's gone — Conor Oberst

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend. — Conor Oberst

I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing. — Conor Oberst

I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories — Conor Oberst

The only thing major labels can really offer is money. — Conor Oberst

I like ideas, but I don't like being preached to. — Conor Oberst

It's exploding bags, aerosol cans Southbound buses, Peter Pan They left it up to us again I thought you knew the drill It's kill or be killed. — Conor Oberst

Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant. — Conor Oberst

The sound of loneliness makes me happier. — Conor Oberst

I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone. — Conor Oberst

When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music. — Conor Oberst

And I sing and sing of awful things The pleasure that my sadness brings. — Conor Oberst

Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object. — Conor Oberst

I think it is more like a ghost that has been following us both. Something vague that we're not seeing, something more like a feeling. — Conor Oberst

If you think about the concept of reincarnation, it's essentially uploading yourself and your spirit into a new form, a new hard drive as it were. — Conor Oberst

I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme. — Conor Oberst

I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus. — Conor Oberst

I have a car in Nebraska. When I bought it, they gave me a satellite radio, and there's an 'indie-rock' station. It's just nothing I'm interested in. — Conor Oberst

We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul. — Conor Oberst

The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute; if you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth. — Conor Oberst

I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds. — Conor Oberst

My Brother went to college To become a doctor And if he studies hard enough He'll end up just like papa, who hates his life. — Conor Oberst

Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt. Do you like to hurt? I do, I do then hurt me. — Conor Oberst

There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road. — Conor Oberst

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam. — Conor Oberst

I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency. — Conor Oberst

When I would first come to New York on tour, I hated the place. — Conor Oberst

I think different musical collaborators bring out different qualities in my songs and I like that. — Conor Oberst

I think there's so much about Rasta culture that's interesting. Just the idea of preaching one-ness, that we're all in this together. — Conor Oberst

Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact. — Conor Oberst

Sometimes I daydream about having a farm and a wife and some babies and watching the grass grow, but you have to meet the right person for that. — Conor Oberst

I went right from wunderkind to washed up. Old. Been around too long. That's just the way I feel. That's my internal dialogue. — Conor Oberst

In a coma, you don't dream, you just hope that someone sits with you. — Conor Oberst

When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going to do. — Conor Oberst

You mean nothing to no one but that's nobody's fault. — Conor Oberst

I'm proud that with 'Bright Eyes' we've always experimented and tried to make a different record every time out. — Conor Oberst

I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love. — Conor Oberst

I always embrace the worst-case scenario. — Conor Oberst

The way my life's structured, I don't stay in a place for more than a couple months. — Conor Oberst

We [ the Desaparecidos ] are perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying or not like what we're saying. — Conor Oberst

For a sunrise or a sunset, you're manic or you're depressed. Will you ever feel ok? — Conor Oberst

I keep my eyes closed a lot when I'm singing because sometimes it's distracting to see people. — Conor Oberst

And in the morning when the sun rise. Look in the water, see the blue sky. As if heaven has been laid there at our feet. — Conor Oberst

There is no Hell when you die so don't look so worried — Conor Oberst

I wanna be your happiness. I wanna be your common sense pain. — Conor Oberst

A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike. — Conor Oberst

We [ Desaparecidos] try to be the opposite of apathetic. There are so many young people in America that are apathetic. — Conor Oberst

Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it. — Conor Oberst

You could be happy, the minute you try. Why won't you try? Oh won't you try? — Conor Oberst

When I started writing songs, I was doing it for myself and a small circle of friends. And gradually, over the years, an audience became involved. — Conor Oberst

And me I'm in the bathroom crying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a man when you're scared, just like a little kid. — Conor Oberst

I swear that I'm dying slowly but it's happening, and if the perfect spring is waiting somewhere ... just take me there. — Conor Oberst

Screaming is bad for the voice, but it's good for the heart. — Conor Oberst

I'd rather be working for a paycheck, than waiting to win the lottery. Besides, maybe this time it's different, I mean, I really think you like me. — Conor Oberst

I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life. — Conor Oberst

I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst. — Andrew Rannells

I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels. — Conor Oberst

My main thing is just to keep writing. I've been doing some songwriting that's for my own record, I suppose. — Conor Oberst

It seems like everything I do musically I tend to lose a few fans and gain a few fans, and it all kind of evens out. — Conor Oberst

So when your new eyes meet mine they won't see no lies, just love ... — Conor Oberst

The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself. — Conor Oberst

If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe. — Conor Oberst

Rock and roll seems to have had a mellowing in the business where it got harder to sell individual records and make money doing that. — Conor Oberst

If I loved you, well that's my fault — Conor Oberst

To finish a song is the best feeling in the world. — Conor Oberst

I believe that vinyl will outlast CDs. — Conor Oberst

It's hard to get people to focus on one idea. — Conor Oberst

Movement has been one of the few constants in my life, and I always feel a great sense of optimism when I set off to a new place. — Conor Oberst

My head's a carousel of pictures and The spinning never stops. — Conor Oberst

Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think. — Conor Oberst

Love's an excuse to get hurt. — Conor Oberst

I would prefer to be a little nervous, because when you stop being nervous is kind of when you stop caring. — Conor Oberst

It's human nature to wonder. — Conor Oberst

They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green. — Conor Oberst

Cause I swear that I'm dying, slowly but its happening. — Conor Oberst

I'm happy just because I found out I am really no one — Conor Oberst

Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want? — Conor Oberst

I have a terrible memory in general, but one thing I've always been able to remember is my songs. — Conor Oberst

If there's a song that stops meaning anything to me, then I'll quit playing it. — Conor Oberst

Each song [Desaparecidos] has a seed that it came from. We're trying to take that and broaden it out and make it resonate with people. — Conor Oberst

I need some meaning I can memorize. The kind I have always seems to slip my mind. — Conor Oberst

Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does. — Conor Oberst

My family is Catholic. I went to a Catholic school, that kind of thing, so that was my childhood for sure. — Conor Oberst

One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly. — Conor Oberst

If you love something, give it away. — Conor Oberst

We've all seen the power music has to spread messages of solidarity and hope. — Conor Oberst

I'm not the most technically savvy person in the world. Like, I'm not good at troubleshooting when stuff happens to my digital music. — Conor Oberst

There's all body types, but there's just one size. — Conor Oberst

The world's become a little too mean. — Conor Oberst

You should never be embarrassed by your trouble with living, because it's the ones with the sorest throats who have done the most singing. — Conor Oberst

It's not a movie, no private screening This method acting, well, I call that living — Conor Oberst

No lies, just love. — Conor Oberst

Everything must belong somewhere. I know that now, that's why I'm staying here. — Conor Oberst

I like the Alice in Wonderland sculpture in Central Park. I love how it's been rained on forever and looks worn down by time. — Conor Oberst

I enjoy recording and performing, but it's the songwriting that I love most. — Conor Oberst

As long as I can buy records and books and maybe some clothes, I'm pretty stoked. I don't need a yacht or anything. — Conor Oberst