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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.

Bradford Cox

Sometimes, I do have something to say, so I’ll sit there and I’ll write a song to someone – and then I just throw it away because it makes me cringe.
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Sometimes Song Writing
Musicians and artists are not… it’s not like politicians or something where you can’t really affect them.
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Artist Men Two
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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Looks People Reading
I don’t have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it’s really awful.
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Awful Stuff Writing
We all come back to our little worlds.
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Come Back Littles World
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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Solitude Sometimes Strong
I think people are intimidated by me, and I don’t know why. Sometimes even my own bandmates can be intimidated, or irritated, by me.
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Irritated People Thinking
When I go on a nostalgia trip it’s not aesthetic. For me it’s about trying to recapture the smell or the feeling of something that I’ve experienced in the past personally.
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Feelings Past Smell
I’m not meaning that in a disrespectful way; you go where people want to hear your music. So if that’s where people want to hear me play.
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Disrespectful Meaning Peopel Want
I’m obsessed with five different things a day. It’s like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.
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Different Obsessed
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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Beer Couple Hotel Realize Years
I see a lot of people doing an “’80s thing” who weren’t even born until the ’90s.
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Born Eighties People
I was trying to write a song based on a story in a random book of Puerto Rican short stories that I found in a thrift store.
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Book Song Writing
Audiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that they’re doing now.
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Artist Musician Stuff
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!
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Fighting Real Team
That’s what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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Culture Imitation Narrative

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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