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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.

Bradford Cox

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
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
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
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
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 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’m gonna put my two cents in as my status update on my Facebook page” or something. Not to sound like an anti-technology person, but it’s just a real drag that people live their lives that way.
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Live People Something Sound Way
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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Car People Sides
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
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
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’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 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
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 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
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

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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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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