Conor Oberst Quotes

I never stopped recording, but I went through a period where... The one thing that a lot of people don't know is that for as long as I've been as artist, I've been a writer and a producer.

Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.

Music is also a part of who I am so I'm thinking about recording an album.

When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.

The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further.

I was 17 when I released my first record. I didn't really figure out what I wanted to say, how to get a message and put it together.

My identity started developing through the songs I was writing.

I've never stopped writing, never stopped recording.

Whenever I can squeeze it in, I'm writing and recording.

I'm constantly writing music and keeping myself busy somehow.

I am devoting some time to music. I'm finding a balance in my life right now so that when I'm not acting I'm really working on the music side of things... producing and writing and recording and also getting to do some live shows. It's a really exciting thing.

I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record.

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

I'm always going to do that - record and make music.

I like to separate the music- and lyric-writing processes if I can. I'll sort of noodle around on my keyboard and my computer until I have a beat or a chord progression, I'll record it as a loop, export it to iTunes, then walk around with the loop and sort of talk to myself in the loop, and that's how I get the lyrics.

I feel like have a lot of music left to cut in my life.

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

There's all these musicians in the world, and anybody that takes enough time to create a record or even think about the fantasy of rock & roll, it's a vulnerable place to be in, it's a huge thing to do.

For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

Making music is fantastic.