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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'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty.
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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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That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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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 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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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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What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
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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 have anything to prove.
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When I got hit by the car, I became depressed. As a result, I've been on antidepressants and I feel like I have no sexuality left. People complain about that side effect, but I love it. I feel outside of society.
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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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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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It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.
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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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You don't need to drink if you have emotional problems.
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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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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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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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