Quotes by Conor Oberst

I used to work at a school as a teachers assistant, and my mom is a principal at an elementary school. I dont know, I think thats a pretty good life, teaching kids.

Ive always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.

Ill never understand how destroying families through deportation benefits our society. How we treat the undocumented says a great deal about us as a people and whether or not well continue to fulfill the fundamental American promise of equality and opportunity for all.

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant.

I never camped as a kid, but I really got into camping and sleeping outdoors. Ive also done some amazing river floats in New Mexico and Idaho. Its peaceful and awesome.

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

If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think wed see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.

Ive cried, and youd think Id be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.

They say its better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.

I have a car in Nebraska. When I bought it, they gave me a satellite radio, and theres an indie-rock station. Its just nothing Im interested in.

Although Omaha is my birthplace and the place I grew up, I dont see myself spending extended amounts of time there. I feel almost more comfortable and more at peace in New York.

Its glorious to be able to go onto the Internet and hear any kind of music anywhere, from anywhere, and get it instantly. But theres also something glorious about having a record with a sleeve and looking at the artwork, putting it on the turntable and playing it, theres still something romantic to me about that.