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Bradford Cox

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
That’s what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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Culture Imitation Narrative
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
A song like “Walkabout”, it’s totally imitative. The goal of that song was to make people happy, and I’ve never really made a song to make people happy before.
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Goal People Song
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
For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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Experimenting Me Traditionalism
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 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’ve been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
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Old Personal Things Wound
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 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
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
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
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
The first thing I think I ever played in public, aside from singing in church, would have been – and this is a true story – when I was about nine or 10 years old, I was obsessed with Twin Peaks.
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People Song Thinking
I don’t have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it’s really awful.
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Awful Stuff Writing

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