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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.

Bradford Cox

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 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
Talk to Arto Lindsay and I’m sure he’s tired of people asking him about DNA; he’s probably really into what he’s doing now, which is good stuff.
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DNA People Tired
For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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Experimenting Me Traditionalism
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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Hero Rap Song
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
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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Esteem Faces Reality Self Situations
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.
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Feelings Past Smell
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 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
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
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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Looks People Reading
I see a lot of people doing an “’80s thing” who weren’t even born until the ’90s.
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Born Eighties People
What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
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Song Straight Up Writing
We all come back to our little worlds.
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Come Back Littles World
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

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