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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.
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 obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.
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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'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty.
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Usually I'm not really conscious of what's going on. I don't have a lot of memories onstage. At all.
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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 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 been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
Bradford Cox
I see a lot of people doing an '80s thing who weren't even born until the '90s.
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You don't need to drink if you have emotional problems.
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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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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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That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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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 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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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 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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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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The sober guy is always going to have this air of arrogance or self-righteousness, but it's not my intention. I just knew that if I drank, I'd have a drinking problem.
Bradford Cox
What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
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