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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.

Bradford Cox

Musicians and artists are not… it’s not like politicians or something where you can’t really affect them.
BRADFORD COX

Artist Men Two
People 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 COX

Bunch Look People Want
I’m obsessed with five different things a day. It’s like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.
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Different Obsessed
You 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.
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Friend Kind Realizing Schedule
I think the younger kids need to realize there’s this whole forgotten 90s that people don’t really talk about.
BRADFORD COX

Kids People Thinking
I 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 COX

Grateful Kids School
The 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.
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People Song Thinking
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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Conscious Memories Really
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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Fighting Real Team
I’m gonna put my two cents in as my status update on my Facebook page” or something. Not to sound like an anti-technology person, but it’s just a real drag that people live their lives that way.
BRADFORD COX

Live People Something Sound Way
I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
BRADFORD COX

Album Song Writing
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.
BRADFORD COX

People Pretentious Thinking
When I go on a nostalgia trip it’s not aesthetic. For me it’s about trying to recapture the smell or the feeling of something that I’ve experienced in the past personally.
BRADFORD COX

Feelings Past Smell
Sometimes, 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 COX

Sometimes Song Writing
We all come back to our little worlds.
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Come Back Littles World
For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
BRADFORD COX

Experimenting Me Traditionalism

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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