I want to build an audience that’s willing to follow us in whichever direction we might choose.
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More Bradford Cox Quotes
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Unlike the rest of everyone I hang around with, I don’t drink, so I remember what happened after shows. And I have never hit on anyone after a show, I’m not that kind of person. Even if I was attracted to someone, I’d be too shy.
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What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
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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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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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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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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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I don’t have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it’s really awful.
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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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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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Contrary to popular belief, maybe, I’m a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people. And I’m not really super impressed even if you’re my hero.
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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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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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All music is devotional, whether it’s devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.
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You read about that Black Lips/Wavves fight as a spectator and you’re like, “Oh man, I’m gonna pick a team to be on!
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