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I'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.

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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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 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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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 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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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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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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What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
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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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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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It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.
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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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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 have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.
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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 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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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 see a lot of people doing an '80s thing who weren't even born until the '90s.
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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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