I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
Bradford CoxAll music is devotional, whether it's devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.
Bradford CoxI'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?
Bradford CoxWhen 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.
Bradford CoxI'm real critical of myself. I think a lot of what I've done is boring indie rock. I didn't intend it to be that way, but somehow milk gets added to everything.
Bradford CoxI 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.
Bradford Cox