341 Quotes by Conor Oberst

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

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

Everything must belong somewhere. I know that now, that’s why I’m staying here.

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

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’m happy just because I found out I am really no one.

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.

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.

We’re going to sing about things that matter to us. The balancing act is to present these ideas but also make the music exciting and sort of fun enough that even if you’re not paying attention to the lyrics, you might still like the songs anyway. That’s the idea.