"If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe."
Conor Oberst"Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it."
Conor Oberst"Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience where a record or a recording has kept you company when no one else is around. And I think that is what I'm hoping that people get out of my music."
Conor Oberst"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."
Conor Oberst"I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life."
Conor Oberst"They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green."
Conor Oberst"I'll 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 we'll continue to fulfill the fundamental American promise of equality and opportunity for all."
Conor Oberst