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

I am asexual. A-sexual. I read somewhere, maybe on Facebook, where somebody said something like, "I heard Bradford was gay, but then I heard he was bi." Then somebody wrote, "No, I heard he was asexual." And then somebody said, "That's bullshit - he totally hit on my friend after a show."

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

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

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.

All music is devotional, whether it's devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.

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