I've given up trying to understand what people think about me. It seems like a lot of people don't like the music… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I don't really premeditate what I write my songs about; you know, they just kind of happen, and I can't start writing… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
It's very strange when people get so focused on what a song means, what actual events inspired a song. That gets people… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
It's glorious to be able to go onto the Internet and hear any kind of music anywhere, from anywhere, and get it… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I didn't used to think about politics much, or social issues. I was a teenager, writing about girls. — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
In theory, I always think I should totally go back to school, because I don't want to start sinking slowly... I want… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
One of my best friends, Mike, had a kid. Just seeing him go through it all was inspiring. It would be so… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
If you think about the concept of reincarnation, it's essentially uploading yourself and your spirit into a new form, a new hard… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
If you think about Protestant and Catholic or Shiite and Sunni, they are basically the same thing... one eats with their left… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I'll never understand how destroying families through deportation benefits our society. How we treat the undocumented says a great deal about us… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Every time I finish a song... most of the time it's in my own head, like this sounds too much like a Townes Van… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
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… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I've given up trying to understand what people think about me. It seems like a lot of people don't like the music we make… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
You can't manufacture inspiration, so a lot of it is still a waiting game for me. There's still a lot of mystery to songwriting.… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
In a way, to have whatever people talk about as "crossover success," I think it means you start making bad music. I mean, when… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Men with purple hearts carry silver guns and they will kill a man for what his father has done. But what my father did,… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
There's a major underlying idea as you grow up that you need to just save your money and get that affordable housing at the… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I've been part of running a label since I was a kid, so I understand how it works. But the more and more I… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I'm ripe for the picking for the Scientologists - one of those creeps. Someone's got to find me. Some little weird cult can just… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
