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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

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’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
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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Conscious Memories Really
That’s what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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Culture Imitation Narrative
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
I read a lot – surveys of vernacular music. A lot of it is the Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music, which I’ve loved since I was in high school.
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Interesting Library School
For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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Experimenting Me Traditionalism
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
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
You’re not necessarily listening to the band and thinking about the lead singer, or the story of the group, or the context or the mythology of the group. You’re just listening to the song and whether or not it has a hook.
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Group Mythology Singer Story
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
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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Looks People Reading
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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People Song Thinking
Unlike the rest of everyone I hang around with, I don’t drink, so I remember what happened after shows. And I have never hit on anyone after a show, I’m not that kind of person. Even if I was attracted to someone, I’d be too shy.
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Everyone Happen Kind Remember Show Shy
I don’t have anything to prove.
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Anything Country People Prove Totally

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