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I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.

Bradford Cox

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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Disrespectful Meaning Peopel Want
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
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 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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Book Song Writing
The same people that always think I’m pretentious will think I’m pretentious, and the people who relate to me will continue to relate to me.
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People Pretentious Thinking
I’ve been going through a lot of… stuff. I need some space, which people were very kind enough to give me, and I feel really gracious about that. Nobody forces me to do things or say things or do interviews.
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Giving Nobody People Space
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
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
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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Esteem Faces Reality Self Situations
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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Acceptance Thinking Validation
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
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
We didn’t have MTV, and I was desperate for something. You know, you’re young, you want something off the beaten path. And Twin Peaks was like, surrealism on network TV.
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Desperate Path Twins
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 don’t have anything to prove.
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Anything Country People Prove Totally
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

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