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
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… — 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
I see a lot of people doing an "'80s thing" who weren't even born until the '90s. — 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
I feel very strongly about the subject matter in The Dallas Buyer's Club - about AIDS and people fighting illnesses, and fighting… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I've been going through a lot of... stuff. I need some space, which people were very kind enough to give me, and… — 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. And it's… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
The same people that always think I'm pretentious will think I'm pretentious, and the people who relate to me will continue to… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I want to satisfy the listener, exactly. I want to entertain the audience. I want the people to leave the show with… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I used to be a lot more engaged on an improvisational level than other people. I was always on tour and always… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
My entire education in music was in reading interviews with bands like Stereolab and finding out about Brazilian music or a Romanian… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
People roll their eyes and say, "Oh god, he's not rich or famous." I say it's relative. I mean, look at me:… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives. — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself? — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people. — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
You think about people like Elvis, Kurt Cobain, or the Beatles, who grew up without privilege and needed a certain validation through… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I don't like the sound of my own voice. And, for people I don't know, their impression of me is what they… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I was only in the public eye because I was annoying. You know how neurotic people may ask for one thing when… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
People say 'I don't want to die alone!' But you know what, honestly? I don't want to die with a bunch of… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I want the music to be heard as close to when I made it, as much as possible. I don't want to… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I know so many people think my music is quite influenced by Animal Collective, but honestly I think maybe the factor is… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I think the younger kids need to realize there's this whole forgotten 90s that people don't really talk about. — 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 don't like the sound of my own voice. And, for people I don't know, their impression of me is what they… — 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 Image
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
