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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.

Bradford Cox

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Bradford Cox
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: May 15
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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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I've always said I write albums I don't write random songs and then sort them out.
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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've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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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 tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?
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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 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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It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.
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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'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty.
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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 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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When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
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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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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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