Conor Oberst Quotes

To finish a song is the best feeling in the world.

Success for me is to write what I think is a good song. When I'm pleased with it, that, for me, is a magical moment. I never lost that buzz.

I feel happy about the songs I've written. I'm a great lover of the craft of songwriting, and I sure admire it in other people when I see it - past and present. I feel comfortable with what I have accomplished. I feel happy to be able to work in that environment, and that I have a lot of songs left to be written, somewhere.

Even when you're producing difficult material and you get emotional, after it you feel good; you feel like you've done a good job, or had an emotional release. I've always enjoyed that, but you go home and think, that was a good day's work, and you move on.

Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

It's a wonderful sort of feeling when people want to spend more time in a world you created.

As a designer, you are flattered to see anyone in one of your designs, whether it's on a red carpet or passing by you in the market. It's this wonderful little high every time.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

I can't write music unless I'm deeply connected to it and that connection almost always comes from some experience that I have had or am having.

In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.

The emotional power of creating something... Nothing gives me as much joy as that.

When people appreciate my work, that's satisfying as an artiste.

You just get satisfaction from achieving something that you just don't get in any other way than from being creative.

It's inevitable that if you write an album or a song, obviously it's going to come from how you feel. You're writing it for yourself, it's just the way it is.

I'm very proud of it. 'Hunchback' contains some of my favorite music I've ever written in my life.

Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness, when one lives in a world of sound.

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

When people want to see your film, you're over the moon because you've actually made real contact. That's something very special.

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

I write my music.

It's fun being creative and that's satisfying.

Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song.

I never have used any other artist as a model for a sound or a song. It always has to come from an emotion, and capturing the essence of that emotion in a song.

I still get enormous pleasure and a sense of fulfillment out of writing a book that I'm proud of. I see myself as a bit like a jewel-maker who can sit back and admire his work.

When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found an audience and is critically well received, that's a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don't want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone's DVD collection.