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I'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty.

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 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 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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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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It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.
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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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We all come back to our little worlds.
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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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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.
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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 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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It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.
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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'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.
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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 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 don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.
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I don't have anything to prove.
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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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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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When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
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