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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.

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 I got hit by the car, I became depressed. As a result, I've been on antidepressants and I feel like I have no sexuality left. People complain about that side effect, but I love it. I feel outside of society.
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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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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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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 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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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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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 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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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 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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I see a lot of people doing an '80s thing who weren't even born until the '90s.
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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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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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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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It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.
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I'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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I don't have anything to prove.
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