Conor Oberst Quotes

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

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

I find that life is easier when it is just a blur With no details to confuse who or what or where I was So when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure

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.

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.

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

I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I want to be enriched by the music I listen to. That's the reason it never really exists in the mainstream. Because that's not what most people are after.

Love's an excuse to get hurt.

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

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

Men with purple hearts carry silver guns and they will kill a man for what his father has done. But what my father did, I don't live it: no, I am not him.

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

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

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.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

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.

I understand why people get desensitized and roll their eyes when they hear a protest song, or even a politician making some flowery speech. It doesn't really change anything.

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.

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

I believe that vinyl will outlast CDs.

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

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

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

Some days I feel like I'm an atheist. Most days, I feel like an agnostic. On a very rare day, I feel like I'm a believer in something.

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

If you love something, give it away...

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

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.

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.

They say they don't know when but a day is gonna come. When there won't be a moon and there won't be a sun. It will just go black. It will just go back to the way it was before.

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

And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself / It's best to compose a poem, an honest verse of longing / Or a simple song of hope.

Although Omaha is my birthplace and the place I grew up, I don't see myself spending extended amounts of time there. I feel almost more comfortable and more at peace in New York.

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

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

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.

The sound of loneliness makes me happier.

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.

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

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.

And me I'm in my bedroom drawing in my notebook Because my hand thinks I'm an artist But my heart knows I'm a poet It's just words they mean so little to me.

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.

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.

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