“One of my best friends, Mike, had a kid. Just seeing him go through it...” — Conor Oberst Quote

“One of my best friends, Mike, had a kid. Just seeing him go through it all was inspiring. It would be so nice to care about someone more than yourself. And Mike is a total delinquent, so if he can do it, I figure I can, too.”

“Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.”

“I have a terrible memory in general, but one thing I've always been able to remember is my songs.”

“When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.”

“In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.”

“An improving credit landscape means fewer loans are delinquent - and fewer people are needed to service these loans.”