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It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.

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Bradford Cox
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: May 15
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Singer-Songwriter
Athens
Georgia
Bradford James Cox
Atlas Sound
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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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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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What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
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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 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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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've always said I write albums I don't write random songs and then sort them out.
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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 anything to prove.
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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 always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
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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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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 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've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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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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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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When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
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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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