Conor Oberst Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is.”

“So much of listening to lyrically driven music is projecting your own feelings and experiences into the music.”

“I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus.”

“If you think about the concept of reincarnation, it's essentially uploading yourself and your spirit into a new form, a new hard drive as it were.”

“It's human nature to wonder.”

“I like ideas, but I don't like being preached to.”

“My main thing is just to keep writing. I've been doing some songwriting that's for my own record, I suppose.”

“When I started writing songs, I was doing it for myself and a small circle of friends. And gradually, over the years, an audience became involved.”

“I'm always fascinated when people really fervently believe, because I have such a hard time believing anything. When people have real faith in something, it's fascinating to me. And the fact that so many people, in surveys, so many people say they do. It kind of blows my mind.”

“I try to make all my songs good. I don't ever write one to finish one. A lot of protest songs end up that way, driven by some kind of emotional response.”