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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.

Bradford Cox

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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'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty.
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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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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 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 tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?
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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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I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.
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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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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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It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.
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I don't have anything to prove.
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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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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 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 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 said I write albums I don't write random songs and then sort them out.
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When I started having a couple of beers and loosening up, I realized how many years I had wasted going back to my hotel room alone when I could have gone and just had a beer or two.
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