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 don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality. — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
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… — 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
I think people are intimidated by me, and I don't know why. Sometimes even my own bandmates can be intimidated, or irritated,… — 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
When I do a record, it sounds more punk and raw. Or it will sound louder, or it will sound more shocking.… — 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
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
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 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
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 think it will ever be lessened. Because I always move on to something else - and the music that I… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
A lot of Appalachian music has a certain haunted, foggy feel to it; a certain sinister quality. And that transcends who is… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I think teenagers just don't have the persistence to pretend to like something they don't anymore. I used to do that -… — 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
