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You don't need to drink if you have emotional problems.

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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That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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I have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.
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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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What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
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It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.
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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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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 don't have anything to prove.
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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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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've always said I write albums I don't write random songs and then sort them out.
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I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.
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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 have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.
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It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.
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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 money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
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We all come back to our little worlds.
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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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When I got hit by the car, I became depressed. As a result, I've been on antidepressants and I feel like I have no sexuality left. People complain about that side effect, but I love it. I feel outside of society.
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