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I’m obsessed with five different things a day. It’s like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.

Bradford Cox

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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Solitude Sometimes Strong
I don’t like the sound of my own voice. And, for people I don’t know, their impression of me is what they read on the internet, and they’re so far off a lot of the time.
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People Sound Voice
You think about people like Elvis, Kurt Cobain, or the Beatles, who grew up without privilege and needed a certain validation through peoples’ acceptance, or admiration from their peers. And money is part of that, but it always comes too late.
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Acceptance Thinking Validation
I think people are intimidated by me, and I don’t know why. Sometimes even my own bandmates can be intimidated, or irritated, by me.
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Irritated People Thinking
Musicians and artists are not… it’s not like politicians or something where you can’t really affect them.
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Artist Men Two
I want to build an audience that’s willing to follow us in whichever direction we might choose.
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Audience Build Choose
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.
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Bunch Look People Want
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
That’s what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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Culture Imitation Narrative
I’ve been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
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Old Personal Things Wound
I’m a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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Friendly Guy People
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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Gay Guy Narcissism Unrequited
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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Air Arrogance Drinking Intention Self
I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
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Album Song Writing
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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Book Song Writing
When money and fame happen too late, it’s like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
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Fire Late Loading Self Too

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