Conor Oberst Quotes

We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

I worked out; I moved 16 times from the age of 19, just hopping about from different flats, because I couldn't always afford to stay.

I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician.

Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

We had no money, my dad was out of work a lot, and we never owned a house. It was very hand-to-mouth.

When I was very young, I had to start to working to help my family, while my friends were studying. Since then, I have felt the urgency to escape from every dependency situation.

I squatted for most of my adult life. I'm not condoning squatting; it was just the only way I could do what I wanted to do. I didn't have, you know, a trust fund or parents that could help out.

There were times when I didn't have enough money, I didn't have enough work, and I would panic.

Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.

My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.

When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

We didn't really feel poor. You don't know that as a kid, but we really didn't have any cash. When machinery broke down, we didn't have money for parts, so we did our best to fix it.

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

I've got to love the film, not the money. Because I know what it's like not to have money - you still survive.

Before I had a steady job, I was broke, and I didn't have any money to buy anything, so I would illegally download stuff.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

I've gone for long stretches without working. I remember many times peeking into my checkbook to see if any money was left.

I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.

My son tried to work in films and he ultimately gave it up, he finally couldn't make a living, he couldn't support himself. He worked all the time and he didn't make enough money to have a house, have an apartment.

Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.

Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues.

Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid.