Bradford Cox Quotes

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

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

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.

I have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.

You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste.

Audiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that they're doing now.

I see a lot of people doing an "'80s thing" who weren't even born until the '90s.

I'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty.

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

It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.

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

I don't have anything to prove.

I've always said I write albums; I don't write random songs and then sort them out.

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

I don't leave my room, and all I am surrounded by are guitars and equipment, y'know? It's not always the best place to be.

I don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality.

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

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.

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

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.

For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.

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

I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?

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

I need punk rock. It's the medicine for me, but it's bitter and sickening. If you don't need it - if you're happy and healthy - run toward that.

Unfortunately it's hard for me to be a fanboy for anything these days just because I see so much music.

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

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

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

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.

I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.

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.

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

We all come back to our little worlds.