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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More Bradford Cox Quotes
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I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
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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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What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
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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’m a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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There’s not like this separate caste system where it’s like, “I’m the musician, you’re the audience. Never the two shall meet.” It was a case where it was like, “Hey, you know what? I’m on your level, man.”
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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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Musicians and artists are not… it’s not like politicians or something where you can’t really affect them.
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When money and fame happen too late, it’s like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
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Usually I’m not really conscious of what’s going on. I don’t have a lot of memories onstage. At all.
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I don’t have anything to prove.
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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 read a lot – surveys of vernacular music. A lot of it is the Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music, which I’ve loved since I was in high school.
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I like my solitude, and I’m a strong-willed person; I’m a very hard-to-be-around person sometimes, I guess.
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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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