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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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Bradford Cox
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: May 15
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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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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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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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I've always said I write albums I don't write random songs and then sort them out.
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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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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 always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
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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 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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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 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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You don't need to drink if you have emotional problems.
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What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
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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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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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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 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 have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.
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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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I see a lot of people doing an '80s thing who weren't even born until the '90s.
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