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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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Bradford Cox
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: May 15
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Bradford James Cox
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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 think the younger kids need to realize there's this whole forgotten 90s that people don't really talk about.
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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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It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.
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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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When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
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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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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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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 refuse to put myself into a situation in which I have to face some kind of I'm losing it kind of thing. I'm not losing it it's changed. What it is is changing.
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What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
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I'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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When I started having a couple of beers and loosening up, I realized how many years I had wasted going back to my hotel room alone when I could have gone and just had a beer or two.
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I'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty.
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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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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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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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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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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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