Conor Oberst Trying Quotations

My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it's not really a true rhyme. That gives you far more flexibility to capture the feeling you're trying to express. But sometimes it's best not to have any rhyme.

I've given up trying to understand what people think about me. It seems like a lot of people don't like the music we make and don't know me, or something.

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.

I've given up trying to understand what people think about me.

It's always the negative things that seep through into your consciousness. Most of the positive things just roll off real fast. I just try not to pay attention to it, because I've never read anything about my band that's accurate.

I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.

Each song [Desaparecidos] has a seed that it came from. We're trying to take that and broaden it out and make it resonate with people.

You could be happy, the minute you try. Why won't you try? Oh won't you try?