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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've always said I write albums I don't write random songs and then sort them out.
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I'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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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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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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I'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty.
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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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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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That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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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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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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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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You don't need to drink if you have emotional problems.
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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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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 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 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'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.
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A lot of bands wanna do something new all the time and never repeat themselves, but I'm not so interested in that. If I feel like I can do it better the second time, I'll give it another shot.
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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 have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.
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