I’m obsessed with five different things a day. It’s like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.
BRADFORD COXI 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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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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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 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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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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I don’t have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it’s really awful.
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You think about people like Elvis, Kurt Cobain, or the Beatles, who grew up without privilege and needed a certain validation through peoples’ acceptance, or admiration from their peers. And money is part of that, but it always comes too late.
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I’m a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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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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I want to build an audience that’s willing to follow us in whichever direction we might choose.
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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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We all come back to our little worlds.
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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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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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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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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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