I think there are some songs that stand the test of time better than others for sure. I think some songs go out of favour; I’ll get sick of a song for a while, and I won’t play it; then it’ll make a comeback. Conor Oberst Read Quote
If there’s a criticism of ‘Cassadaga’ that I agreed with, it’s that we left things in the oven too long, that songs were overstuffed, with too many ideas competing for space. Conor Oberst Read Quote
I’m proud that with ‘Bright Eyes’ we’ve always experimented and tried to make a different record every time out. Conor Oberst Read Quote
So much of listening to lyrically driven music is projecting your own feelings and experiences into the music. Conor Oberst Read Quote
I didn’t used to think about politics much, or social issues. I was a teenager, writing about girls. Conor Oberst Read Quote
My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it’s not really a true rhyme. That gives you far more flexibility to capture the feeling you’re trying to express. But sometimes it’s best not to have any rhyme. Conor Oberst Read Quote
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. Conor Oberst Read Quote
The best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn’t exist before, and now it’s there, and it makes me feel a certain way. Conor Oberst Read Quote
I’ve given up trying to understand what people think about me. It seems like a lot of people don’t like the music we make and don’t know me, or something. Conor Oberst Read Quote
