341 Quotes by Conor Oberst

I started to sink like the moon tends to do if you stare at it too long Then you blink and it's gone

For a song I was bought Now I lie when I talk With a careful eye on the cue card. Onto a stage I was pushed, With my sorrow well rehearsed. So give me all your pity and your money, now (all of it).

It's exploding bags, aerosol cans Southbound buses, Peter Pan They left it up to us again I thought you knew the drill It's kill or be killed.

I went right from wunderkind to washed up. Old. Been around too long. That's just the way I feel. That's my internal dialogue.

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.

I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels.

If there's a song that stops meaning anything to me, then I'll quit playing it.

Music becomes very personal. When you marry a message you want to send out into the world with good music, all of a sudden you have a very potent way of delivering your message.

It seems like everything I do musically I tend to lose a few fans and gain a few fans, and it all kind of evens out.