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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.

Bradford Cox

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 go on a nostalgia trip it’s not aesthetic. For me it’s about trying to recapture the smell or the feeling of something that I’ve experienced in the past personally.
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Feelings Past Smell
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
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 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
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
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
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 a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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Friendly Guy People
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
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
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
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
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
I’m real critical of myself. I think a lot of what I’ve done is boring indie rock. I didn’t intend it to be that way, but somehow milk gets added to everything.
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Done Real Thinking
That’s what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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Culture Imitation Narrative

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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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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