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 COXI think people are intimidated by me, and I don’t know why. Sometimes even my own bandmates can be intimidated, or irritated, by me.
More Bradford Cox Quotes
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I’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.
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I’m obsessed with five different things a day. It’s like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.
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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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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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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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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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We didn’t have MTV, and I was desperate for something. You know, you’re young, you want something off the beaten path. And Twin Peaks was like, surrealism on network TV.
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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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What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
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Unfortunately it’s hard for me to be a fanboy for anything these days just because I see so much music.
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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’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.
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I’m a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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I played the theme from Twin Peaks on a little tiny Casio keyboard. People politely applauded. I just fell in love with that song and thought it was very heartbreaking.
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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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