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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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Bradford Cox
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: May 15
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Bradford James Cox
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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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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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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'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.
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It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.
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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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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 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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That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
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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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I collaborate a little bit with different aspects of my own mind. I kick my own ass instead of kicking other people's asses.
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I don't have anything to prove.
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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 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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