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 More Quotes by Conor Oberst More Quotes From Conor Oberst And me I'm in my bedroom drawing in my notebook Because my hand thinks I'm an artist But my heart knows I'm a poet It's just words they mean so little to me. Conor Oberst notebook heart mean You can't manufacture inspiration, so a lot of it is still a waiting game for me. There's still a lot of mystery to songwriting. I don't have a method that I can go back to - they either come or they don't. Conor Oberst inspiration games waiting And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself / It's best to compose a poem, an honest verse of longing / Or a simple song of hope. Conor Oberst eye rain song I'm not the most technically savvy person in the world. Like, I'm not good at troubleshooting when stuff happens to my digital music. Conor Oberst stuff-happens digital world One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly. Conor Oberst inspired rip my-favorite 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.' Conor Oberst doctors kindness thinking On every Bright Eyes record, there's some kind of sound collage that begins it. Some of them have dialogue, some don't. I like it because it can kind of slow down the attention span a bit. It's a way to draw you in to the rest of the record. Conor Oberst eye sound attention On good days, I can see the inherent goodness in people, and that human beings have a high capacity to learn and adapt. But things like the environment, nuclear weapons and ideas like peak oil - if you think about them too much, they can really freak you out. Conor Oberst good-day ideas thinking They say they don't know when but a day is gonna come. When there won't be a moon and there won't be a sun. It will just go black. It will just go back to the way it was before. Conor Oberst black moon depression I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds. Conor Oberst winning heart thinking The sound of loneliness makes me happier. Conor Oberst loneliness sound I try not to think about the idea of reaching more and more people, because once you get in that mindset, I think you lose the point of why you're doing it in the first place. Still, 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 song ideas thinking Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think. Conor Oberst jobs people thinking The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself. Conor Oberst repeats worst artist We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul. Conor Oberst nine soul numbers You could be happy, the minute you try. Why won't you try? Oh won't you try? Conor Oberst minutes trying Well morning came, and it dressed the sky in a lovely yellow gown. Shopping malls are opening in that narrow hallway of downtown, filled with people who are shopping for their lovers and their friends, singing "I won't ever be lonely again Conor Oberst lonely sky morning I'm happy just because I found out I am really no one Conor Oberst found If you love something, give it away... Conor Oberst bright-eyes ifs giving I swear that I'm dying slowly but it's happening, and if the perfect spring is waiting somewhere... just take me there. Conor Oberst dying-slowly perfect spring
