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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.
Conor Oberst
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Conor Oberst
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: February 15
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Omaha
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Conor Mullen Oberst
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Men with purple hearts carry silver guns and they will kill a man for what his father has done. But what my father did, I don't live it: no, I am not him.
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It seems like everything I do musically I tend to lose a few fans and gain a few fans, and it all kind of evens out.
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One by one I drowned all the people I’d been.
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I don't feel real confident expressing myself except when I'm writing. I feel kind of scatterbrained. I can see everything from both sides and that makes it hard to reach conclusions. Writing enables me to clarify things.
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So when your new eyes meet mine they won't see no lies, just love.
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When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going to do.
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The sound of loneliness makes me happier.
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Every time I finish a song... most of the time it's in my own head, like this sounds too much like a Townes Van Zandt song, or whoever. I realize there are so many melodies and chord progressions in pop and rock music that are so similar that you can kind of trace it back to other things. Most of the time it's just in your head.
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