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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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Bradford James Cox
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I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.
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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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When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
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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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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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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 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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I have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.
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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'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty.
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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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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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