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.
BRADFORD COXIn 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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I’m a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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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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All music is devotional, whether it’s devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.
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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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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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I was trying to write a song based on a story in a random book of Puerto Rican short stories that I found in a thrift store.
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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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I see a lot of people doing an “’80s thing” who weren’t even born until the ’90s.
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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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That’s what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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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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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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My entire education in music was in reading interviews with bands like Stereolab and finding out about Brazilian music or a Romanian composer. You expose yourself to what people you look up to admire.
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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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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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