Bradford Cox

I'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.

— Bradford Cox

You don't need to drink if you have emotional problems.

— Bradford Cox

What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?

— Bradford Cox

Everything I do is 100% automation, which means I'm just doing it live.

— Bradford Cox

It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.

— Bradford Cox

We all come back to our little worlds.

— Bradford Cox

As a homosexual, my job is simply to sodomize mediocrity.

— Bradford Cox

If you're not Jay-Z, a record leaking isn't going to affect you.

— Bradford Cox

I like my solitude, and I'm a strong-willed person; I'm a very hard-to-be-around person sometimes, I guess.

— Bradford Cox

Usually I'm not really conscious of what's going on. I don't have a lot of memories onstage. At all.

— Bradford Cox

I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.

— Bradford Cox

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

Audiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that…

— Bradford Cox

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

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

I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound…

— Bradford Cox

I'm not the guy in the dress with the blood and the unrequited gay whatever - which, according to my psychiatrist, my…

— Bradford Cox

I was only in the public eye because I was annoying. You know how neurotic people may ask for one thing when…

— Bradford Cox

I feel very strongly about the subject matter in The Dallas Buyer's Club - about AIDS and people fighting illnesses, and fighting…

— Bradford Cox

I used to be a lot more engaged on an improvisational level than other people. I was always on tour and always…

— Bradford Cox

I know so many people think my music is quite influenced by Animal Collective, but honestly I think maybe the factor is…

— Bradford Cox

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

When I got hit by the car, I became depressed. As a result, I've been on antidepressants and I feel like I…

— Bradford Cox

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

I'll be honest with you, one of the things that frustrated me the most out the record leak thing, it had nothing…

— Bradford Cox

I like playing at public schools. I like when there's more of a diverse audience. I'll play wherever people want to hear…

— Bradford Cox

The first thing I think I ever played in public, aside from singing in church, would have been - and this is…

— Bradford Cox

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

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

When I do a record, it sounds more punk and raw. Or it will sound louder, or it will sound more shocking.…

— Bradford Cox

You read about that Black Lips/Wavves fight as a spectator and you're like, "Oh man, I'm gonna pick a team to be…

— Bradford Cox

You gotta have friends, and it's really hard to have friends that don't operate on the same schedule as you or do…

— Bradford Cox

I'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty.

— Bradford Cox

For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.

— Bradford Cox

I've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.

— Bradford Cox

The Internet nowadays is all sensationalism, and it's just terrifying when you're actually experiencing it as a person.

— Bradford Cox

I collaborate a little bit with different aspects of my own mind. I kick my own ass instead of kicking other people's…

— Bradford Cox

That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.

— Bradford Cox

When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.

— Bradford Cox

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