341 Quotes by Conor Oberst

If I loved you, well that's my fault

When I try to explain to people the big influences in my life, or at least when I first started, the most important ones were my friends who were also writing songs and were typically four or five years older than me.

I wanna be your happiness. I wanna be your common sense pain.

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. I don't have a method that I can go back to - they either come or they don't.

My Brother went to college To become a doctor And if he studies hard enough He'll end up just like papa, who hates his life.

Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want?

I enjoy recording and performing, but it's the songwriting that I love most.

Cause a costume can be comfortable It can make you feel more beautiful It can even make you look like someone else But it's still you, so there's nothing you can do Like a bad habit, the one you couldn't kick, there it always is And it's nothing that no doctor's gonna fix.

I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, 'The Handmaid's Tale.' And you know, so much of science fiction has to do with predicting what's to come, so I think that's really interesting.