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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
Composer
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Athens
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Bradford James Cox
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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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You don't need to drink if you have emotional problems.
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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'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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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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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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I don't have anything to prove.
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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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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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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 see a lot of people doing an '80s thing who weren't even born until the '90s.
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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 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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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 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 don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.
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I've always said I write albums I don't write random songs and then sort them out.
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I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.
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