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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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Bradford James Cox
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You read about that Black Lips/Wavves fight as a spectator and you're like, Oh man, I'm gonna pick a team to be on! I'm gonna put my two cents in as my status update on my Facebook page or something. Not to sound like an anti-technology person, but it's just a real drag that people live their lives that way.
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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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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 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 been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound good on it.
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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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It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.
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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'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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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 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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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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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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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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That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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