When you listen to the Anthology of American Folk Music, or anything like that - a compilation of garage bands from the Northeast in the early '60s - you're not necessarily listening to the band and thinking about the lead… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
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. They had it at the library and I always… — 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 kind of things you do, because they don't understand it. And then you realize that your friends - your real-life friends - it's not that they become fanboys of you but they become more interested in… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 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 a song… — 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 just throw… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
