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 COXI 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.
More Bradford Cox Quotes
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When money and fame happen too late, it’s like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
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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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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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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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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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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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That’s what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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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 don’t have anything to prove.
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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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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’ve been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
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I like my solitude, and I’m a strong-willed person; I’m a very hard-to-be-around person sometimes, I guess.
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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’m gonna put my two cents in as my status update on my Facebook page” or something. Not to sound like an anti-technology person, but it’s just a real drag that people live their lives that way.
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