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That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.

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Bradford Cox
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: May 15
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Bradford James Cox
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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 see a lot of people doing an '80s thing who weren't even born until the '90s.
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I read a lot - surveys of vernacular music. A lot of it is the Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music, which I've loved since I was in high school. They had it at the library and I always thought that was interesting, even when I was into punk and stuff. Just the history of storytelling and the amount of melancholy a lot of old music has.
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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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It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.
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I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound good on it.
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I don't have anything to prove.
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I'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.
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I'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty.
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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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I think the younger kids need to realize there's this whole forgotten 90s that people don't really talk about.
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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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I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
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You read about that Black Lips/Wavves fight as a spectator and you're like, Oh man, I'm gonna pick a team to be on! I'm gonna put my two cents in as my status update on my Facebook page or something. Not to sound like an anti-technology person, but it's just a real drag that people live their lives that way.
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I feel very strongly about the subject matter in The Dallas Buyer's Club - about AIDS and people fighting illnesses, and fighting for survival against bad conditions.
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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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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 am asexual. A-sexual. I read somewhere, maybe on Facebook, where somebody said something like, I heard Bradford was gay, but then I heard he was bi. Then somebody wrote, No, I heard he was asexual. And then somebody said, That's bullshit - he totally hit on my friend after a show.
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The Internet nowadays is all sensationalism, and it's just terrifying when you're actually experiencing it as a person.
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It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.
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