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When I started having a couple of beers and loosening up, I realized how many years I had wasted going back to my hotel room alone when I could have gone and just had a beer or two.

Bradford Cox

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
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
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
I’m a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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Friendly Guy People
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
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
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
I don’t have anything to prove.
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Anything Country People Prove Totally
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 see a lot of people doing an “’80s thing” who weren’t even born until the ’90s.
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Born Eighties People
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’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
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
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
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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Fighting Real Team

When I started having a couple of beers and loosening up, I realized how many years I had wasted going back to my hotel room alone when I could have gone and just had a beer or two.

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