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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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Bradford Cox
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: May 15
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Bradford James Cox
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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 have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.
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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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It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.
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A lot of bands wanna do something new all the time and never repeat themselves, but I'm not so interested in that. If I feel like I can do it better the second time, I'll give it another shot.
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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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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 feel very strongly about the subject matter in The Dallas Buyer's Club - about AIDS and people fighting illnesses, and fighting for survival against bad conditions.
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We all come back to our little worlds.
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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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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 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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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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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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When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
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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 see a lot of people doing an '80s thing who weren't even born until the '90s.
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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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