Conor Oberst Quotes

In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.

I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death.

I am about as detailed as a shadow.

It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

To be honest everything goes over my head a bit.

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.

There's a gray area there that I'm satisfied is not gray.

I strive to be brief but I become obscure.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore.

Be obscure clearly.

I'll say life is simpler.

I spend a substantial amount of my time endeavoring to fend off questions, and worry terribly that I might end up being too clear.

We hope vaguely, we dread precisely; our fears are infinitely more precise than our hopes

Any order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood

I love telling stories, but I also am more aware now of how complex reality is and how difficult it is to really explain what happened or how I felt. Maybe that sometimes makes me a little bit vague, because I don't want to really put my finger on anything or set it in stone.

I'm not sure I necessarily have explicit messages.

That's the one thing I don't like hearing, when someone says, 'We'll see what happens, see what happens here, see what happens there.' Forget all of that.

Everybody wants to have an empirical analysis of a relationship ending, but sometimes there's not that much clarity, and that's OK.

I just do what I do.

It's a murky world out there, and it's hard to figure things out sometimes.