“I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, b...” — Conor Oberst Quote

I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to necessarily convey my own experience as an individual to the world.

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.

I'm a real music fan, so I listen to all kinds of music all the time. I listen to a lot of what my friends or people I know are listening to. I'm always checking out new bands.

I enjoy recording and performing, but it's the songwriting that I love most.

Love's an excuse to get hurt.

One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

A film that I love is 'Deliverance' from back in the day. You start out with these archetypal characters - the hero, the bookworm, the pacifist - and by the end, it's all turned upside down. I love that.

I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.

I tend to fall for the archetypal, talented, charismatic rock boy.

When I started in the business there were no women in executive positions, no women producers or directors and certainly no camerawomen and we were destined to do very archetypal roles, very cliched things, so I was a dizzy blonde for years.