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Bradford Cox

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
I think people are intimidated by me, and I don’t know why. Sometimes even my own bandmates can be intimidated, or irritated, by me.
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Irritated People Thinking
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
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
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 some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
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Old Personal Things Wound
When money and fame happen too late, it’s like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
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Fire Late Loading Self Too
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
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
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
I’m obsessed with five different things a day. It’s like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.
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Different Obsessed
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 think the younger kids need to realize there’s this whole forgotten 90s that people don’t really talk about.
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Kids People 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
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
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

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