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I want to build an audience that’s willing to follow us in whichever direction we might choose.

Bradford Cox

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
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
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 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
That’s what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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Culture Imitation Narrative
We all come back to our little worlds.
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Come Back Littles 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
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
I played the theme from Twin Peaks on a little tiny Casio keyboard. People politely applauded. I just fell in love with that song and thought it was very heartbreaking.
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Heartbreaking Love Play Pretty
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
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
What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
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Song Straight Up Writing
For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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Experimenting Me Traditionalism
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
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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Interesting Library School
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

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