Talk to Arto Lindsay and I’m sure he’s tired of people asking him about DNA; he’s probably really into what he’s doing now, which is good stuff.
BRADFORD COXTalk to Arto Lindsay and I’m sure he’s tired of people asking him about DNA; he’s probably really into what he’s doing now, which is good stuff.
BRADFORD COXI’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.
BRADFORD COXPeople say ‘I don’t want to die alone!’ But you know what, honestly? I don’t want to die with a bunch of people looking at me.
BRADFORD COXWhat could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
BRADFORD COXI think the younger kids need to realize there’s this whole forgotten 90s that people don’t really talk about.
BRADFORD COXI see a lot of people doing an “’80s thing” who weren’t even born until the ’90s.
BRADFORD COXI’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 COXThat’s what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
BRADFORD COXUsually I’m not really conscious of what’s going on. I don’t have a lot of memories onstage. At all.
BRADFORD COXAll music is devotional, whether it’s devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.
BRADFORD COXSometimes, 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.
BRADFORD COXI’m obsessed with five different things a day. It’s like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.
BRADFORD COXThe first thing I think I ever played in public, aside from singing in church, would have been – and this is a true story – when I was about nine or 10 years old, I was obsessed with Twin Peaks.
BRADFORD COXI 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.
BRADFORD COXI’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.
BRADFORD COXYou’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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