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I don't have anything to prove.

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Bradford Cox
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: May 15
Composer
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
Athens
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Bradford James Cox
Atlas Sound
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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 see a lot of people doing an '80s thing who weren't even born until the '90s.
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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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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 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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I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
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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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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 have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.
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I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.
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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 don't leave my room, and all I am surrounded by are guitars and equipment, y'know? It's not always the best place to be.
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What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
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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 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'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?
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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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It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.
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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 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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