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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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When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
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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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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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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 always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.
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I'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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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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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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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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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 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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I've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
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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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What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
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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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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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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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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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People say 'I don't want to die alone!' But you know what, honestly? I don't want to die with a bunch of people looking at me.
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