341 Quotes by Conor Oberst

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.

And me I’m in the bathroom crying out my eyelids because it’s hard to be a man when you’re scared, just like a little kid.

The world’s become a little too mean.

It’s hard to get people to focus on one idea.

In a way, to have whatever people talk about as “crossover success,” I think it means you start making bad music. I mean, when I’m flipping through the channels and see the VMAs or something, I don’t really see any music there.

The Bible’s blind, the Torah’s deaf, the Qur’an is mute; if you burned them all together you’d get close to the truth.

Joe Arpaio needs no help from me getting attention. For years he has been a beacon of bigotry and intolerance for all the world to see. The list of human and civil-rights abuses he’s committed in Maricopa County is long and well documented.

I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, ‘There’s nothing that I can do for you that you can’t do for yourself.’ He said, ‘Oh yes you can. Just hold my hand. I think that that would help.’ So I sat with him a while then I asked him how he felt. He said, ‘I think I’m cured.’

It’s dangerous to buy into praise and criticism for what you do when you’re trying to present your music to people. I don’t ignore it completely, but I don’t dwell on it too much.