What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song? — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
All music is devotional, whether it's devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something. — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens. — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
Unfortunately it's hard for me to be a fanboy for anything these days just because I see so much music. — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I've always said I write albums; I don't write random songs and then sort them out. — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
When young groups put out albums, they're always forced to go through this cycle of touring and talking and flaunting and posturing… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
A song like "Walkabout", it's totally imitative. The goal of that song was to make people happy, and I've never really made… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
Audiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
A lot of bands wanna do something new all the time and never repeat themselves, but I'm not so interested in that.… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
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… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I do have something to say, so I'll sit there and I'll write a song to someone - and then I… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I'm working on one of the projects at a time and I'm the zone of that project. I'm not saying there's anything… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I was trying to write a song based on a story in a random book of Puerto Rican short stories that I… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
When you listen to the Anthology of American Folk Music, or anything like that - a compilation of garage bands from the… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, maybe, I'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people. And I'm not really… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
The first thing I think I ever played in public, aside from singing in church, would have been - and this is… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I realized I had written maybe, I dunno, the first ever asexual love song. Where it's really just about a fear of… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
Musicians and artists are not... it's not like politicians or something where you can't really affect them. There's not like this separate… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
You gotta have friends, and it's really hard to have friends that don't operate on the same schedule as you or do the same… — Bradford Cox Copy Share
When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing. — Bradford Cox Copy Share
I don't think it will ever be lessened. Because I always move on to something else - and the music that I listen to,… — Bradford Cox Copy Share
You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste. — Bradford Cox Copy Share
A song like "Walkabout", it's totally imitative. The goal of that song was to make people happy, and I've never really made a song… — Bradford Cox Copy Share
Sometimes, I do have something to say, so I'll sit there and I'll write a song to someone - and then I just throw… — Bradford Cox Copy Share
I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens. — Bradford Cox Copy Share
I'm not the guy in the dress with the blood and the unrequited gay whatever - which, according to my psychiatrist, my gayness is… — Bradford Cox Copy Share
I'm interested in acting as much as I'm interested in gardening. I want to garden, eventually. I want to learn how to do a… — Bradford Cox Copy Share
I am asexual. A-sexual. I read somewhere, maybe on Facebook, where somebody said something like, "I heard Bradford was gay, but then I heard… — Bradford Cox Copy Share
The sober guy is always going to have this air of arrogance or self-righteousness, but it's not my intention. I just knew that if… — Bradford Cox Copy Share
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… — Bradford Cox Copy Share
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… — Bradford Cox Copy Share
Usually I'm not really conscious of what's going on. I don't have a lot of memories onstage. At all. — Bradford Cox Copy Share
