Musicians and artists are not… it’s not like politicians or something where you can’t really affect them.
BRADFORD COXI 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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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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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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I see a lot of people doing an “’80s thing” who weren’t even born until the ’90s.
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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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I’ve been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
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We all come back to our little worlds.
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That’s what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I don’t have anything to prove.
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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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