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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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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 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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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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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 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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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 see a lot of people doing an '80s thing who weren't even born until the '90s.
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I'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty.
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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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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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It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.
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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've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.
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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 always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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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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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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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 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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