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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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Bradford Cox
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: May 15
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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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I want to satisfy the listener, exactly. I want to entertain the audience. I want the people to leave the show with the feeling I used to leave shows with when I was young, and I couldn't get over it for another three or four days after it. I just kept reliving the set in my mind.
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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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I'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty.
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I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.
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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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I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
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Everybody just needs to realize that when you write something you're just in one mood. I was told I needed to write it and it was overdue I don't even remember what day it was.
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I don't know if I have any real aspirations to be an actor. It was just something I was asked to do in sort of a friend way. And I thought, Why not?
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I know so many people think my music is quite influenced by Animal Collective, but honestly I think maybe the factor is that we're both influenced by the same stuff.
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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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We all come back to our little worlds.
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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 collaborate a little bit with different aspects of my own mind. I kick my own ass instead of kicking other people's asses.
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I'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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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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People say 'I don't want to die alone!' But you know what, honestly? I don't want to die with a bunch of people looking at me.
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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 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'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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