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When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.

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 been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.
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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've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
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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 see a lot of people doing an '80s thing who weren't even born until the '90s.
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I want to satisfy the listener, exactly. I want to entertain the audience. I want the people to leave the show with the feeling I used to leave shows with when I was young, and I couldn't get over it for another three or four days after it. I just kept reliving the set in my mind.
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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 think the younger kids need to realize there's this whole forgotten 90s that people don't really talk about.
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People say 'I don't want to die alone!' But you know what, honestly? I don't want to die with a bunch of people looking at me.
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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 was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.
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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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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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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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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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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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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
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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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