Music is unique because you can get behind enemy lines a little bit, get into people's houses and into their heads, on… — 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
In many ways Bright Eyes is really a studio project. We form bands to tour, but it really is - you know,… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience where a record or a recording… — 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
The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule.… — 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 think that, with anything creative, you should have the freedom to experiment, and that experimentation means not feeling totally responsible for… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I try to keep the idea that there's an audience in as little space in my mind as possible, but you can't… — 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
I would prefer to be a little nervous, because when you stop being nervous is kind of when you stop caring. — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
You can do a lot to shape the feeling of a song by the way you record it. — 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
