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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.

Bradford Cox

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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 money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
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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 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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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 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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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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You don't need to drink if you have emotional problems.
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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 don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.
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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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It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.
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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 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 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'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?
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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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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'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.
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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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