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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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Bradford Cox
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: May 15
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Bradford James Cox
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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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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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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 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 been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.
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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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My entire education in music was in reading interviews with bands like Stereolab and finding out about Brazilian music or a Romanian composer. You expose yourself to what people you look up to admire.
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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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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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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 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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I see a lot of people doing an '80s thing who weren't even born until the '90s.
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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 have anything to prove.
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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'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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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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