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
It's always the negative things that seep through into your consciousness. Most of the positive things just roll off real fast. I… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Each Desaparecidos's song has a seed that it came from. We're trying to take that and broaden it out and make it… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Desaparecidos try to be the opposite of apathetic. There are so many young people in America that are apathetic. — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
When I try to explain to people the big influences in my life, or at least when I first started, the most… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
It's dangerous to buy into praise and criticism for what you do when you're trying to present your music to people. I… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
You could be happy, the minute you try. Why won't you try? Oh won't you try? — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it's not really a… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I try not to think about the idea of reaching more and more people, because once you get in that mindset, I… — 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
