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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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I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?
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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 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'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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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 don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.
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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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When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
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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 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 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 always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
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That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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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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I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.
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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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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've always said I write albums I don't write random songs and then sort them out.
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I'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty.
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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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