"Out of all artists, authors are the least trained for the spotlight. Wanting attention isn't a requisite part of the package."

-- Sloane Crosley

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“I can never be what I ought to be untilÂ you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made. No individual or nation can stand out boasting of being independent, we are interdependent.”
“On your 60th, here's something philosophical To give the old grey matter a stir How old would you be If you didn't know how old you were?”
“Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.”
“Try asking sometime. Not all women will stand for that 50 Shades crap, you know.”
“I don't consider what you're wearing when I design a shoe. I don't have a particular look in mind or make a shoe thinking, "This would look great with a blue pinstripe suit." I just let you dress yourself. I'm looking at the shoe itself, not as a component of an outfit.”
“We have to avoid the spiritual sickness of a self-referentia l church. It's true that when you get out into the street, as happens to every man and woman, there can be accidents. However, if the church remains closed in on itself, self-referentia l, it gets old. Between a church that suffers accidents in the street, and a church that's sick because it's self-referentia l, I have no doubts about preferring the former.”
“I try not to think about the idea of reaching more and more people, because once you get in that mindset, I think you lose the point of why you're doing it in the first place. Still, the best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.”

Source : "Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 11, 2007.
“What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naÃ¯ve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.”

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