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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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What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
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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 see a lot of people doing an '80s thing who weren't even born until the '90s.
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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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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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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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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 have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.
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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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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 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'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.
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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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It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.
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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.
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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 always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
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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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I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.
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I've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
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