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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
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Bradford James Cox
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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 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'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty.
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I feel very strongly about the subject matter in The Dallas Buyer's Club - about AIDS and people fighting illnesses, and fighting for survival against bad conditions.
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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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The sober guy is always going to have this air of arrogance or self-righteousness, but it's not my intention. I just knew that if I drank, I'd have a drinking problem.
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I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.
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That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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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 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've always said I write albums I don't write random songs and then sort them out.
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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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I've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
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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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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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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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