341 Quotes by Conor Oberst

Rock and roll seems to have had a mellowing in the business where it got harder to sell individual records and make money doing that.

If you think about the concept of reincarnation, it's essentially uploading yourself and your spirit into a new form, a new hard drive as it were.

Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt. Do you like to hurt? I do, I do then hurt me.

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

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

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

we made love on the living room floor with the noise in the background of a televised war and in that defeaning pleasure i thought i heard someone say if we walk away they'll walk away

I don't feel real confident expressing myself except when I'm writing. I feel kind of scatterbrained. I can see everything from both sides and that makes it hard to reach conclusions. Writing enables me to clarify things.

I think that hip-hop is more of an individual effort. That means you're an artist from the streets, they expect you to rap about the streets, because that's what happens there.