Usually I’m not really conscious of what’s going on. I don’t have a lot of memories onstage. At all.
BRADFORD COXUsually I’m not really conscious of what’s going on. I don’t have a lot of memories onstage. At all.
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 COXWhen 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.
BRADFORD COXUnfortunately it’s hard for me to be a fanboy for anything these days just because I see so much music.
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 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 COXWe all come back to our little worlds.
BRADFORD COXI want to build an audience that’s willing to follow us in whichever direction we might choose.
BRADFORD COXThere’s not like this separate caste system where it’s like, “I’m the musician, you’re the audience. Never the two shall meet.” It was a case where it was like, “Hey, you know what? I’m on your level, man.”
BRADFORD COXYou gotta have friends, and it’s really hard to have friends that don’t operate on the same schedule as you or do the same kind of things you do, because they don’t understand it.
BRADFORD COXThat’s what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
BRADFORD COXMusicians and artists are not… it’s not like politicians or something where you can’t really affect them.
BRADFORD COXWhat could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
BRADFORD COXI’m obsessed with five different things a day. It’s like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.
BRADFORD COXI see a lot of people doing an “’80s thing” who weren’t even born until the ’90s.
BRADFORD COXIn 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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