I’m a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
BRADFORD COXYou think about people like Elvis, Kurt Cobain, or the Beatles, who grew up without privilege and needed a certain validation through peoples’ acceptance, or admiration from their peers. And money is part of that, but it always comes too late.
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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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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 always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
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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’ve been going through a lot of… stuff. I need some space, which people were very kind enough to give me, and I feel really gracious about that. Nobody forces me to do things or say things or do interviews.
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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 see a lot of people doing an “’80s thing” who weren’t even born until the ’90s.
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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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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.
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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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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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You’re always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that’s maybe even too weird for your own taste.
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We all come back to our little worlds.
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The same people that always think I’m pretentious will think I’m pretentious, and the people who relate to me will continue to relate to me.
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I don’t have anything to prove.
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