341 Quotes by Conor Oberst

I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.

I didn't used to think about politics much, or social issues. I was a teenager, writing about girls.

[Popular music]is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world.

I think there's a weird self-affirmation thing that happens in popular music in general. It seems like every song I hear on the radio is like, "Listen to me roar!" or "This is my fight song!"

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

Once you realize that everyone is in the same boat, that everyone is just as insecure and childlike as everyone else, that all these jokers in D.C. ruining our world are just greedy kids grabbing for marbles - I think that realization means you're an adult.

We [Desaparecidos] have to make the message and the music and the packaging as appealing as possible - as Taco Bell as possible: mediocre and no one can be offended by it and everyone can sort of enjoy it and we can play it on the radio.

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

When you're 16 or 17, I think like most people that age, the first time you experience certain things in life, whether it's heartbreak or death or love, obviously it's going to seem like a much bigger deal.