Conor Oberst Quotes

To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right.

We don't read a lot of what people say about us.

I never thought to look at the New York Times one, even though I knew people were pissed off. I've seen YouTube videos from people who are pissed off at me about that and that takes a lot of effort to go find.

I try to focus more on the positive, but it's half the time I'm getting, "Oh you're only in the gym to take a picture," and it's like, "So what the f--k, I'm in here every day, I drove an hour just to take a picture?"

Donald Trump's negative enough, I don't need to add to that.

Sometimes you want to read what people write about you, obviously.

I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often - dull.

Some of those STINKIN' press people just had to make fun of my decision in joining the show. They also made fun of other choices in my life that I was proud of then and still am now!!!

I have learned that I will not pay any attention to anything people say about my movies, because people say things that are all over the place.

But I think, if you're in the spotlight, people are going to say bad things, and that's just the way it is.

I am sure every movie I've made, even as an actor, had multiple test screenings. And I am sure there have been horrible things written about me. But I never have to see them!

The media is going to treat you good one day and bad the next day.

Does General Grant think I care what the newspapers say?

Long ago, I had to sort of learn to have a thick skin to read some of the things you read in the papers and to also keep my ego in check when you read some really flattering things in the papers.

I've learned since 'Drip or Drown' that no one should care what people think. I learned that, after years of comments, it really doesn't matter.

You know, people hate me or love me and I just don't even bother paying attention to it anymore.

It doesn't matter what people want to say on message boards, know what I mean? I don't pay attention to that stuff.

I don't mind if what they write about me has some truth in it. Pure imagination makes me feel sad about the whole thing.

I read about two reviews early on when my first record came out, and it just freaked me out, good and bad, so I've never really kept up with that side of it.

Funny thing, as you become famous, people write less nice things about you.

I have learned to avoid the coverage, good or bad - and it's mostly bad.

You know that once you're successful, there's going to be good things and bad things that people say and, honestly, to me it doesn't really matter.

There's no shortage of opinions about our agency, just like every other agency up here - and just like the Congress. I'd encourage our folks not to get too hung up on what I consider to be the noise on TV and in social media.

I choose to let the press say whatever they want and let people say whatever they want.

Don't try to win over the haters; you are not a jackass whisperer.