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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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Bradford Cox
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: May 15
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Bradford James Cox
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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 have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.
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I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?
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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 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've always said I write albums I don't write random songs and then sort them out.
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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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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'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 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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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 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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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'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.
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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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When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
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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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I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.
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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 like my solitude, and I'm a strong-willed person I'm a very hard-to-be-around person sometimes, I guess.
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