53 Quotes by Bradford Cox

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

When I go on a nostalgia trip it’s not aesthetic. For me it’s about trying to recapture the smell or the feeling of something that I’ve experienced in the past personally.

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.

Everybody just needs to realize that when you write something you’re just in one mood. I was told I needed to write it and it was overdue; I don’t even remember what day it was.

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

For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.

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

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

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