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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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Bradford Cox
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: May 15
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Bradford James Cox
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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'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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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've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
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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 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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I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?
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I don't have anything to prove.
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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've always said I write albums I don't write random songs and then sort them out.
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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 see a lot of people doing an '80s thing who weren't even born until the '90s.
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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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