I don’t have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it’s really awful.
BRADFORD COXThe 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.
More Bradford Cox Quotes
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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 like playing at public schools. I like when there’s more of a diverse audience. I’ll play wherever people want to hear my music, and I’ll be glad and grateful for the opportunity, but I’d rather not play for a bunch of white privileged kids.
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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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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 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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A song like “Walkabout”, it’s totally imitative. The goal of that song was to make people happy, and I’ve never really made a song to make people happy before.
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I’m a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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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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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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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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Musicians and artists are not… it’s not like politicians or something where you can’t really affect them.
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I’m obsessed with five different things a day. It’s like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.
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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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That’s what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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I’m not the guy in the dress with the blood and the unrequited gay whatever – which, according to my psychiatrist, my gayness is a form of narcissism but you’ll have to ask him about that.
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