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.
BRADFORD COXYou 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.
More Bradford Cox Quotes
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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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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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I want to build an audience that’s willing to follow us in whichever direction we might choose.
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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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I like playing at public schools. I like when there’s more of a diverse audience. I’ll play wherever people want to hear my music, and I’ll be glad and grateful for the opportunity, but I’d rather not play for a bunch of white privileged kids.
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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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All music is devotional, whether it’s devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.
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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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They had it at the library and I always thought that was interesting, even when I was into punk and stuff. Just the history of storytelling and the amount of melancholy a lot of old music has.
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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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I don’t have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it’s really awful.
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We all come back to our little worlds.
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Musicians and artists are not… it’s not like politicians or something where you can’t really affect them.
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I’ve been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
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That’s what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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