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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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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 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 think the younger kids need to realize there's this whole forgotten 90s that people don't really talk about.
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I don't have anything to prove.
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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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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 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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You don't need to drink if you have emotional problems.
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I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.
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What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
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We all come back to our little worlds.
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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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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.
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I'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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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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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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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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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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