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I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.
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 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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I've always said I write albums I don't write random songs and then sort them out.
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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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It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.
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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 money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
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When I got hit by the car, I became depressed. As a result, I've been on antidepressants and I feel like I have no sexuality left. People complain about that side effect, but I love it. I feel outside of society.
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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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You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste.
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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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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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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 a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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We all come back to our little worlds.
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I'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty.
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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 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 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 don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality.
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