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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.

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
For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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Experimenting Me Traditionalism
I’ve been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
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Old Personal Things Wound
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 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
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 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’m not the guy in the dress with the blood and the unrequited gay whatever – which, according to my psychiatrist, my gayness is a form of narcissism but you’ll have to ask him about that.
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Gay Guy Narcissism Unrequited
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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Beer Couple Hotel Realize Years
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
Sometimes, I do have something to say, so I’ll sit there and I’ll write a song to someone – and then I just throw it away because it makes me cringe.
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Sometimes Song Writing
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 see a lot of people doing an “’80s thing” who weren’t even born until the ’90s.
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Born Eighties People
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
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
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’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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