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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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Bradford Cox
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: May 15
Composer
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
Athens
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Bradford James Cox
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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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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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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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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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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 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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It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.
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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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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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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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I'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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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 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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I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.
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I know so many people think my music is quite influenced by Animal Collective, but honestly I think maybe the factor is that we're both influenced by the same stuff.
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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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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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