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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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Bradford Cox
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: May 15
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I want to satisfy the listener, exactly. I want to entertain the audience. I want the people to leave the show with the feeling I used to leave shows with when I was young, and I couldn't get over it for another three or four days after it. I just kept reliving the set in my mind.
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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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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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When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
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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 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'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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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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I see a lot of people doing an '80s thing who weren't even born until the '90s.
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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 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 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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I'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty.
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That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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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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What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
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You read about that Black Lips/Wavves fight as a spectator and you're like, Oh man, I'm gonna pick a team to be on! I'm gonna put my two cents in as my status update on my Facebook page or something. Not to sound like an anti-technology person, but it's just a real drag that people live their lives that way.
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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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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 tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?
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