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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.

Bradford Cox

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 don’t have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it’s really awful.
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Awful Stuff Writing
You’re not necessarily listening to the band and thinking about the lead singer, or the story of the group, or the context or the mythology of the group. You’re just listening to the song and whether or not it has a hook.
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Group Mythology Singer Story
You’re always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that’s maybe even too weird for your own taste.
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Musician Taste Trying
I need punk rock. It’s the medicine for me, but it’s bitter and sickening. If you don’t need it – if you’re happy and healthy – run toward that.
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Medicine Rocks Running
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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Giving Nobody People Space
I’m not meaning that in a disrespectful way; you go where people want to hear your music. So if that’s where people want to hear me play.
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Disrespectful Meaning Peopel Want
All music is devotional, whether it’s devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.
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Devotion Music Something
I don’t have anything to prove.
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Anything Country People Prove Totally
They had it at the library and I always thought that was interesting, even when I was into punk and stuff. Just the history of storytelling and the amount of melancholy a lot of old music has.
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History Lot Music Old Storytelling
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
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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Collaboration People World
For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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Experimenting Me Traditionalism
A song like “Walkabout”, it’s totally imitative. The goal of that song was to make people happy, and I’ve never really made a song to make people happy before.
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Goal People Song
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

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