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.
BRADFORD COXWhen money and fame happen too late, it’s like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
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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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I think the younger kids need to realize there’s this whole forgotten 90s that people don’t really talk about.
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Audiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that they’re doing now.
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When I got hit by the car, I became depressed. As a result, I’ve been on antidepressants and I feel like I have no sexuality left. People complain about that side effect, but I love it. I feel outside of society.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Musicians and artists are not… it’s not like politicians or something where you can’t really affect them.
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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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Unlike the rest of everyone I hang around with, I don’t drink, so I remember what happened after shows. And I have never hit on anyone after a show, I’m not that kind of person. Even if I was attracted to someone, I’d be too shy.
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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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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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