“When I got hit by the car, I became depressed. As a result, I've been on antidepressants and I feel like I have no sexuality left. People complain about that side effect, but I love it. I feel outside of society.” PeopleFeelsLeftSidesResultsEffectsCarSexualityComplainingSide EffectsAntidepressants Author: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 people looking at me.” PeopleKnowsWantDiesHonestlyBunchWanting To Die Author:Bradford Cox
“I see a lot of people doing an "'80s thing" who weren't even born until the '90s.” PeopleBorn80s Author:Bradford Cox
“My entire education in music was in reading interviews with bands like Stereolab and finding out about Brazilian music or a Romanian composer. You expose yourself to what people you look up to admire.” PeopleLooksReadingBandFindingsAdmireInterviewsLook UpComposerBrazilian Music Author:Bradford Cox
“I want the music to be heard as close to when I made it, as much as possible. I don't want to get into some "future of the music industry" thing, or where I stand on digital this or that, but I think it's ridiculous that a lot of people in the industry plan so far ahead that it makes a lot of improvisation impossible and makes a lot of people's expectations fixed and not fluid.” PeopleThinkingWantMadePlansImpossibleHeardIndustryExpectationsRidiculousMade ItFixedDigitalFluidImprovisationMusic Industry Author:Bradford Cox
“I want to satisfy the listener, exactly. I want to entertain the audience. I want the people to leave the show with the feeling I used to leave shows with when I was young, and I couldn't get over it for another three or four days after it. I just kept reliving the set in my mind.” PeopleWantMindShowsFeelingsYoungUsedThreeAudienceFourOver ItListenersGet Over Author:Bradford Cox
“I used to be a lot more engaged on an improvisational level than other people. I was always on tour and always had a guitar in my hands, and when I went back home, my battery was at full charge. I had a lot of energy to get off, just impulses that I could draw upon.” PeopleHomeHandsUsedEnergyLevelsDrawsGuitarUsed To BeImpulseEngagedBack HomeBatteries Author:Bradford Cox
“I don't like the sound of my own voice. And, for people I don't know, their impression of me is what they read on the internet, and they're so far off a lot of the time.” PeopleKnowsSoundVoiceMy OwnInternetImpression Author:Bradford Cox
“I think people are intimidated by me, and I don't know why. Sometimes even my own bandmates can be intimidated, or irritated, by me.” PeopleThinkingKnowsSometimesMy OwnIntimidatedIrritated Author: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: I'm 115 pounds and I grew up without money. To me, I'm rich because I don't have to worry about paying rent. I don't think about money now.” PeopleThinkingLooksMeanEyeWorryRichGrewGrew UpPoundsRelativeLook At MePaying Rent Author:Bradford Cox
“You think about people like Elvis, Kurt Cobain, or the Beatles, who grew up without privilege and needed a certain validation through peoples' acceptance, or admiration from their peers. And money is part of that, but it always comes too late.” PeopleThinkingCertainAcceptanceGrewNeededLateGrew UpPrivilegeToo LateAdmirationPeersValidationCobain Author:Bradford Cox
“I've been going through a lot of... stuff. I need some space, which people were very kind enough to give me, and I feel really gracious about that. Nobody forces me to do things or say things or do interviews.” PeopleNeedsGivingFeelsKindEnoughForceStuffSpaceGive MeInterviewsGracious Author: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 relate to me.” PeopleThinkingRelatePretentious Author:Bradford Cox
“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 is good stuff. I guess I probably feel like that. But I'm obviously not comparing myself to someone as iconic as that.” PeopleFeelsStuffAskingTiredCompareDnaIconic Author:Bradford Cox
“I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.” PeopleWritingPerspectiveGender Author: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 on! I'm gonna put my two cents in as my status update on my Facebook page" or something. Not to sound like an anti-technology person, but it's just a real drag that people live their lives that way.” PeopleMenWayPersonsTwoRealFightingSoundBlackTechnologyTeamPagesPicksLipsDragCentsSpectatorsUpdatesFacebook PageTwo CentsStatus Updates Author:Bradford Cox
“I know so many people think my music is quite influenced by Animal Collective, but honestly I think maybe the factor is that we're both influenced by the same stuff.” PeopleThinkingKnowsStuffAnimalMusic IsHonestlyFactorsCollectives Author:Bradford Cox
“I'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.” PeopleGuyMeetingsFriendly Author:Bradford Cox
“I feel very strongly about the subject matter in The Dallas Buyer's Club - about AIDS and people fighting illnesses, and fighting for survival against bad conditions.” PeopleFightingSurvivalIllnessAidsVery Strong Author:Bradford Cox
“The first thing I think I ever played in public, aside from singing in church, would have been - and this is a true story - when I was about nine or 10 years old, I was obsessed with Twin Peaks. I played the theme from Twin Peaks on a little tiny Casio keyboard. People politely applauded. I just fell in love with that song and thought it was very heartbreaking.” PeopleThinkingSongChurchSingingObsessedTwinsHeartbreakingTrue Story Author: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 my music, and I'll be glad and grateful for the opportunity, but I'd rather not play for a bunch of white privileged kids. I'm not meaning that in a disrespectful way; you go where people want to hear your music. So if that's where people want to hear me play, I'm glad to play for them. But I'd rather play for an audience where half of them were not into it than one where all of them were pretending to be into it, for fear of being uncultured.” PeopleKidsSchoolOpportunityAudienceGratefulGladPretendingDiversePublic SchoolDisrespectful Author:Bradford Cox
“I don't like the sound of my own voice. And, for people I don't know, their impression of me is what they read on the internet, and they're so far off a lot of the time. I think people are intimidated by me, and I don't know why. Sometimes even my own bandmates can be intimidated, or irritated, by me. I come across as arrogant somehow. In reality, I've probably got the lowest self-esteem of anybody I know, which has really been rubbed in my face lately in personal situations.” PeopleThinkingSometimesRealitySituationInternetImpressionArrogantLowestIntimidatedIrritated Author:Bradford Cox
“I was only in the public eye because I was annoying. You know how neurotic people may ask for one thing when they may really want another thing? It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.” PeopleEyeAttentionAnnoyingNeurotic Author:Bradford Cox
“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 to make people happy before. I really genuinely wanted people to listen to that song and have their spirits lifted.” PeopleSpiritSongGoal Author:Bradford Cox
“I think the younger kids need to realize there's this whole forgotten 90s that people don't really talk about.” PeopleThinkingKidsRealizingForgotten Author: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 dying alone - you need contact, you need love, you need empathy. You need this relationship but if there's no sex involved, people act like it's not a legitimate relationship.” PeopleSongDyingLove YouEmpathyI RealizedNeed LoveFear Of Dying Author: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 super impressed even if you're my hero; I can just rap with you and we can hang. I'm not gonna like sit there and bite my lip and ask questions about certain songs - okay I might do that once or twice. But it's just, like, two people hanging out.” PeopleGuySongBeliefHeroOkayMeetingsRapFriendlyHanging OutMy HeroContrary To Popular Belief Author:Bradford Cox
“Unfortunately it's hard for me to be a fanboy for anything these days just because I see so much music. And it's not a namedropping thing, but there's just not that many people in this certain small little genre world we live in that I don't know or am not acquainted with. And I like them all; I get along with pretty much everyone. It wouldn't be unusual to see a thousand collaborations at some point.” PeopleWorldCollaborationUnusual Author:Bradford Cox
“I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?” PeopleTryingStruggleTiredUglyAuthenticityAttractiveBeing YourselfWhy NotI'm Tired Author:Bradford Cox
