“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 it away because it makes me cringe.” WritingSometimesSongCringe Author:Bradford Cox
“I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.” WritingFirstsKindHappensLastsSongMiddleAlbumsFirsts And LastsLast Song Author:Bradford Cox
“I've always said I write albums; I don't write random songs and then sort them out.” WritingSaidSongAlbums Author:Bradford Cox
“I'm working on one of the projects at a time and I'm the zone of that project. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with this, and I might experiment with it in the future, but I'm not a fan of just random assemblages of songs at the moment.” MomentsMightSongFansProjectsExperimentsZoneAssemblage Author:Bradford Cox
“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 singer, or the story of the group, or the context or the mythology of the group. You're just listening to the song and whether or not it has a hook.” ThinkingSongListeningMythologyHookGarageJust ListenFolk Music 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 was trying to write a song based on a story in a random book of Puerto Rican short stories that I found in a thrift store. I thought it was really dark, and so I tried to interpret it. I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.” WritingTryingBookSongDarkPerspectiveGenderShort StoryThrift 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
“What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?” WritingSongStraight Up 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
