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I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.
Conor Oberst
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Conor Oberst
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: February 15
Guitarist
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Omaha
Nebraska
Conor Mullen Oberst
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One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly.
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Little soldier, little insect You know war it has no heart It will kill you in the sunshine Or happily in the the dark Where kindness is a card game Or a bent up cigarette In the trenches, in the hard rain With a bullet and a bet.
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To outsiders it probably seems like splitting hairs, but to me, Bright Eyes is a simply the collaboration between myself and Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott. What you hear is definitely the sum of all our ideas and represents all three of us. But I still write the songs myself.
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I think it is more like a ghost that has been following us both. Something vague that we're not seeing, something more like a feeling.
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Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant.
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For a sunrise or a sunset, you're manic or you're depressed. Will you ever feel ok?
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Rock and roll seems to have had a mellowing in the business where it got harder to sell individual records and make money doing that.
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I've given up trying to understand what people think about me.
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And me I'm in the bathroom crying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a man when you're scared, just like a little kid.
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