Conor Oberst

There's a major underlying idea as you grow up that you need to just save your money and get that affordable housing at the edge of town where you're away from the city where all the crime happens or whatever. ”

Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it. ”

There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road. ”

I would prefer to be a little nervous, because when you stop being nervous is kind of when you stop caring. ”

The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself. ”

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

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. ”

There's a very fine line between one person's reality and another person's fantasy. ”

If there's a song that stops meaning anything to me, then I'll quit playing it. ”

You can only really understand good if you have bad, so the idea of heaven or anything that happens for eternity, even if it's nice, I can't imagine it being nice forever. Even the idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know. ”