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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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Bradford Cox
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: May 15
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Bradford James Cox
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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 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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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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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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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 have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.
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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 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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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'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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I don't have anything to prove.
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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 always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.
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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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What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
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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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The Internet nowadays is all sensationalism, and it's just terrifying when you're actually experiencing it as a person.
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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 always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
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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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