• Obviously, it seems like a good thing to do. There’s a morality about it, about saying let’s just share this with everyone, let’s not just let this be a commercial good when in our eyes it’s a work of art. The whole comparison to shoplifting is absurd and a desperate attempt to hold onto this control that has been accumulated. I also think it’s just pragmatic from our position. We want people to hear the music. We don’t have the advertising dollars to be on TV and radio. It makes sense.

— Conor Oberst on advocating music downloads.

• "That night I started to think about belief. Maybe it’s not even advisable to be an optomist anymore. Maybe pessimism is something we have to apply daily, like moisturizer, otherwise how do you bounce back when reality batters your belief system, and love does not, as promised, conquer all? Is hope a drug we need to go off of, or is it keeping us alive? Whats the harm in believing?" — Sex and the City
  • i think i have to start renting seasons of this show!
• "Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man." -Vladimir Nabokov
• "You flicker. I cannot touch you. I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns. And it exhausts me to watch you Flickering like that, wrinkly and clear red, like the skin of a mouth." — Sylvia Plath
• "When the men betray you - and they will betray you- use this as an opportunity to forgive, as a heightened experience from which you can make music, write poetry, paint paintings. Believe me, you will be privy to a world that’s more vivid than your crayon - more colorful than those snapshots your father is so fond of. A place where your creativity is queen. So plunge in, say yes, fall recklessly in love. Feel more deeply than your friends do. Hit the heights, descend into the depths. Kiss the lads smack on the lips and move on- like it did. I survived love and you will too." — The Lost Girls
• "I'm telling secrets to the one guy you don't tell secrets to."-Almost Famous (Russel)
• Her face was as lovely as the first rain of the summer; her heart could hold gently the pain of the world. — Jodi Picoult
• That’s just the trouble with me. I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it. — Alice in Wonderland
• Don’t you dare tell me nothing matters. Everything matters. Every fucking drop of rain, every ray of sunlight, every wisp of cloud matters and they matter because I can see them and if I can see them then they can see me and I know that there’s an entire world that cares out there, hiding behind a world that doesn’t, afraid to show who it really is and with or without you, I will drag that world out of the dirt and the blood and the muck until we live in it. Until we all live in it. — I Wrote This For You
• There were so many talents you possessed that I wished myself to have. But the way your eyes would gloss over, well, I never envied that. And I doubt you’ll ever come back now from wherever it is you are. Cause you never understood what they loved you for.— Bright Eyes - Reinvent the Wheel
• "Aw, man. You made friends with them. See, friendship is the booze they feed you. They want you to get drunk on feeling like you belong."-Almost Famous (Lester Bangs)
• "The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what we share with someone else when we're uncool."-Almost Famous (Bangs)
• But what my father did, you know it don’t mean shit. I’m not him. - Conor Oberst
• "Did I really love
  
  , or was I addicted to the pain, the exquisite pain, of wanting someone so unattainable? … And just like that I untied myself from
  
  , and I was free. But there was nothing exquisite about it." — sex and the city
• Sometimes you find yourself saying ‘What is this song about?’ but ultimately it doesn’t matter because you get caught up in the words and the melodies. You get that one line or hook that starts doing a loop in your head. - Emmylou Harris on the songs of Conor Oberst.
• Make for yourself a world you can believe in. It sounds simple, I know. But it’s not. Listen, there are a million worlds you could make for yourself. Everyone you know has a completely different one - the woman in 5G, that cab driver over there, you. Sure, there are overlaps, but only in the details. Some people make their worlds around what they think reality is like. They convince themselves that they had nothing to do with their worlds’ creations and continuations. Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees and physics and driftwood and emerald earrings and books dropped in bathtubs and holes in guitars and plastic and empathy and hardwood and heavy water and high black stockings and the history of the Vikings and brass and obsolescence and burnt hair and collapsed soufflés and the impossibility of not falling in love in an art museum with the person standing next to you looking at the same painting and all the other things that just happen and are. But you want to make for yourself a world that is deliberately and meticulously personalized. A theater for your life, if I could put it like that. Don’t live an accident. Don’t call a knife a knife. Live a life that has never been lived before, in which everything you experience is yours and only yours. Make accidents on purpose. Call a knife a name by which only you will recognize it. Now I’m not a very smart man, but I’m not a dumb one, either. So listen: If you can manage what I’ve told you, as I was never able to, you will give your life meaning. - Jonathan Safran Foer, A Convergence Of Birds
  • i'm assuming this is a book, and a book i think i simply must read, as soon as possible
• "And I loved him, Jesus how I loved him. It wasn’t love of course, even I can see now that it was infatuation, but at the time it near enough killed me. Its so passionate, so intense, so painful, that even years afterward you still feel the hurt when you hear their name." — Jane Green, Straight Talking
• "I always tell the girls: never take it seriously; if ya never take it seriously, ya never get hurt; ya never get hurt, ya always have fun; and if you ever get lonely, just go to the record store and visit your friends."-Almost Famous (Penny Lane)
• "Some people have a hard time explaining rock 'n' roll. I don't think anyone can really explain rock 'n' roll. Maybe Pete Townshend, but that's okay. Rock 'n' roll is a lifestyle and a way of thinking... and it's not about money and popularity. Although, some money would be nice. But it's a voice that says, "Here I am... and fuck you if you can't understand me." And one of these people is gonna save the world. And that means that rock 'n' roll can save the world... all of us together. And the chicks are great. But what it all comes down to is that thing. The indefinable thing when people catch something in your music."-Almost Famous (Jeff Bebe)
• "If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there." — Lewis Carroll
• "This song explains why I'm leaving home to become a stewardess."-Almost Famous (Anita Miller, aka the character that made me fall in love with Zooey Deschanel)
• "One day you'll be cool. Look under your bed, it'll set you free."-Almost Famous (Anita Miller)
• "This is the circus, everybody's trying not to go home. Stop looking at me like that."-Almost Famous (Russel)
• "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to create Republicans." (Bill Hicks, American comedian, 1961-1994)
• "I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day." - Abraham Lincoln (via thoughtsdetained)
• "I’m making plans. Wanna rise to the occasion, yeah meet all of their demands. But all I do is just lay in bed and hide under the covers." - Conor Oberst
• "I know I should be brave, but I’m just too afraid of all this change. And it’s too hard to focus through all this doubt. I keep making these “To Do” lists but nothing gets crossed out." - Conor Oberst
• "My first record, my voice hadn’t changed yet. So I sounded like a girl when I sang. And now I have a lower voice. My voice actually keeps getting lower every year. So I’m scared that eventually it won’t make any sound at all." - Conor Oberst
• "From gentle soul to sad and stoned. No one wants to be alone. I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life." - Conor Oberst
• “So long everything!” he shouted, then he ran next door to Margot’s house. “I’m moving,” he said. “Where?” asked Margot. “Two weeks away,” said Mitchell. “Where is that?” asked Margot. “It’s everywhere I will be after I walk for two weeks,” said Mitchell, “I have lived in the same place for a long time, it is time for me to go some place else.” “No.” said Margot, “You have only lived next door for fifteen years.” “Sixteen,” said Mitchell. “Fifteen…sixteen, what’s the difference?” said Margot, “I want you to stay next door forever.” “I can’t,” said Mitchell, ” I do not want to go wake up in the same old bed and eat breakfast in the same old kitchen. Every room in my house is the same old room, because I have lived there too long. ”And you look at me and think, same old face, same old tail, same old scale, same old walk, same old talk, same old Margot,” “No,” said Mitchell, “I like your face, tail, scale, walk, and talk.” ”I like you.” “I like you too,” said Mitchell. He walked through the door. “I must pack,” he said.
• "I stood dropping a coin into the pit of a well. And I would throw my whole billfold if I thought it would help."
• "Today is a good day to just start over. Be wary of saving too much money, because disaster could strike at any time, and I'm pretty sure heaven is just you sitting there wishing you'd bought an XBOX because it turns out you can take it with you, but there's nothing to buy in the great beyond. Be on the lookout for a new love! Everyone has kisses. Who is going to slip one into your pocket when you aren't looking? Your lucky numbers this week are: 1,2,3, all the way up to infinity. I am just saying. Shit is going to go good for you. Open your mouth! Get ready!" - Joey Comeau
• "I looked in all the places you aren’t. I just can’t find the places you are. I only know that you are where I am not." - Winnie the Pooh
• So there’s this girl on the hill, with a kite strapped to her back, crying, “Come on hurry, blow. Pick me up and throw me skywards.” She’s got got a prayer in her mouth, and she’s done all the math. She’s got a feather for a heart , but that doesn’t guarantee her.Because not everything you run to, wants you. Not everything you love, loves you."
• "I watched Twilight with the volume all the way down. I thought it was a movie about a guy with nice eyes and diarrhea, like, ‘Am I gonna have to go in science class??’" - John Mayer