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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.

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 don't have anything to prove.
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You don't need to drink if you have emotional problems.
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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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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've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
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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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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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The Internet nowadays is all sensationalism, and it's just terrifying when you're actually experiencing it as a person.
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I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound good on it.
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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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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 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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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 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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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 see a lot of people doing an '80s thing who weren't even born until the '90s.
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I'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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I am asexual. A-sexual. I read somewhere, maybe on Facebook, where somebody said something like, I heard Bradford was gay, but then I heard he was bi. Then somebody wrote, No, I heard he was asexual. And then somebody said, That's bullshit - he totally hit on my friend after a show.
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I'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty.
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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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