I’m real critical of myself. I think a lot of what I’ve done is boring indie rock. I didn’t intend it to be that way, but somehow milk gets added to everything.
BRADFORD COXWhen 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.
More Bradford Cox Quotes
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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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I don’t have anything to prove.
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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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What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
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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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We all come back to our little worlds.
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We didn’t have MTV, and I was desperate for something. You know, you’re young, you want something off the beaten path. And Twin Peaks was like, surrealism on network TV.
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Unfortunately it’s hard for me to be a fanboy for anything these days just because I see so much music.
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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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I don’t like the sound of my own voice. And, for people I don’t know, their impression of me is what they read on the internet, and they’re so far off a lot of the time.
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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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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 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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In reality, I’ve probably got the lowest self-esteem of anybody I know, which has really been rubbed in my face lately in personal situations.
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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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