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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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Bradford Cox
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: May 15
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Athens
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Bradford James Cox
Atlas Sound
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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 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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That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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I've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
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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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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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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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We all come back to our little worlds.
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I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.
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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 a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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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 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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When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
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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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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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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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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 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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