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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.

Bradford Cox

Audiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that they’re doing now.
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Artist Musician Stuff
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
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
I want to build an audience that’s willing to follow us in whichever direction we might choose.
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Audience Build Choose
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
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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History Lot Music Old Storytelling
I’m a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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Friendly Guy People
Sometimes, I do have something to say, so I’ll sit there and I’ll write a song to someone – and then I just throw it away because it makes me cringe.
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Sometimes Song Writing
We all come back to our little worlds.
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Come Back Littles World
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 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
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 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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Grateful Kids School
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
You’re always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that’s maybe even too weird for your own taste.
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Musician Taste Trying
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

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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