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I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?

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Bradford Cox
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: May 15
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Bradford James Cox
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I have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.
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You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste. In my case it's kind of weird because I started out being known more for ambient things and ambiguous music, but what's experimental for me is the more traditional structure. For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.
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When I do a record, it sounds more punk and raw. Or it will sound louder, or it will sound more shocking. Or mind-boggling. I'll be trying to figure it out, but once I've got it figured out I'll be like, I know this I know where this came from. I think art is most interesting when the intention is not clear.
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I've always said I write albums I don't write random songs and then sort them out.
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You don't need to drink if you have emotional problems.
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When I got hit by the car, I became depressed. As a result, I've been on antidepressants and I feel like I have no sexuality left. People complain about that side effect, but I love it. I feel outside of society.
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I think people are intimidated by me, and I don't know why. Sometimes even my own bandmates can be intimidated, or irritated, by me.
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I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.
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I refuse to put myself into a situation in which I have to face some kind of I'm losing it kind of thing. I'm not losing it it's changed. What it is is changing.
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You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste.
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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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I don't leave my room, and all I am surrounded by are guitars and equipment, y'know? It's not always the best place to be.
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I'm real critical of myself. I think a lot of what I've done is boring indie rock. I didn't intend it to be that way, but somehow milk gets added to everything.
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I like my solitude, and I'm a strong-willed person I'm a very hard-to-be-around person sometimes, I guess.
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It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.
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I don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality.
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When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
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Musicians and artists are not... it's not like politicians or something where you can't really affect them. There's not like this separate caste system where it's like, I'm the musician, you're the audience. Never the two shall meet. It was a case where it was like, Hey, you know what? I'm on your level, man.
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My entire education in music was in reading interviews with bands like Stereolab and finding out about Brazilian music or a Romanian composer. You expose yourself to what people you look up to admire.
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