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All music is devotional, whether it’s devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.

Bradford Cox

What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
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Song Straight Up Writing
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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Desperate Path Twins
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
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
People say ‘I don’t want to die alone!’ But you know what, honestly? I don’t want to die with a bunch of people looking at me.
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Bunch Look People Want
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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Conscious Memories Really
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
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
I don’t have anything to prove.
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Anything Country People Prove Totally
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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Acceptance Thinking Validation
I don’t have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it’s really awful.
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Awful Stuff Writing
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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Artist Musician Stuff
I’m a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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Friendly Guy People
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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Solitude Sometimes Strong
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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Audience Know Learn Musician Shall
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

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