It took a little time to get where I wanted. It took a little time to get free. … - Conor O'Brien

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Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the lives of others.

Conor O'Brien

It took a little time to get where I wanted. It took a little time to get free. It took a little time to be honest. It took a little time to be me.

Honest, Littles, Time, Took, Wanted

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I think for me, the only depressing music is music that doesn't give credence to those kinds of feelings, music that's just written for money or commercial reasons. Sad music can be the most uplifting thing in the world.

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I just think I'm a narcissist, really! I guess when I write albums, they take a huge amount of time out of my life and I'm aware of not using the same processes as I did with the last one, or else I'd get really bored and wouldn't feel inspired.

Amount, Aware, Bored, Thinking, Time, Writing

I think the trick is that you have to change how you take stuff in. Maybe the early beginnings of a song come out in a subconscious way, but then you might have to crack it to a certain degree, where you might use parts of your brain that you don't normally use.

Crack, Might Use, Normally, Song, Thinking, Trick

There's no way anyone's going to understand my own personal experiences, where the songs came from, because they're mine. But I was very conscious of leaving loads of space in the songs so that people could interpret them with their own memories, feelings, and emotions. I love the process of taking stuff away so that people could finish the songs themselves. I was hoping it'd end up being as universal as possible, even though it comes from the most personal place.

Emotions, Leaving, Memories, Place, Song, Space

If you're writing a song about a relationship ending, what you're really doing is honoring how much that person meant to you.

Ending, Person, Relationships Ending, Song, Writing

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