Bradford Cox Quotes
I have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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A few years ago, I found out that there's a lot of Gypsy blood on my mother's side. I'm wild in that way - I've been brought up to do my own thing.
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We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
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Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.
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Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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I was always very academically focused when I was growing up, and music was something for which I really had no preconceptions or expectations for myself or really any rules. It kind of represented, at least for me, a divergent path of creativity and self-discovery.
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I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.
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Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
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I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.
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I made a clean version of 'Enter the Ninja' that my mom can listen to.
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I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just because it's the wrong side of the creator-consumer barrier for me. I'm a visual writer. I think in moving 3D images and write down what I observe.
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My interviewing style and my approach to things is that, yes, it's okay to be sincere; it's okay to be yourself; it's okay to be real.
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Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
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Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
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I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.
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Color always vexed me because I would fight with the media I was using. I love coloring in Photoshop, and it's freed me to pursue ideas and techniques I wouldn't have otherwise attempted. Since I get to take an assignment from concept to final execution, I have more freedom in my idea-making processes.
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Here's the fascinating part, call it the golden shoulder: We have no idea in advance who the great contributors are going to be. We know that there's a huge cohort of people struggling outside the boundaries of the curated, selected few, but we don't know who they are.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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I have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.
