15 Bizarre Quotes From Bradford Cox's Deerhunter Press Conference

Bradford Cox is a character. He likes to mess around in interviews, he likes to make outrageous claims, he seems to like building upon his own bizareness year after year. For the his primary band, Deerhunter's most recent album Monomania, Cox insisted that in place of one on one interviews, journalists attend a group press conference.

Of course, the numerous one on one interviews that have been released reveal that this group setting was just another strange stunt from Cox—which doesn't make it any less interesting. Over the course of an hour and a half, the Deerhunter frontman singlehandedly addressed myriad topics, taboo or otherwise. Here's fifteen of the most bizare and hilarious things he said.

“I’m too busy writing albums that transcend fidelity ranges. I’m way too busy to get my dick wet. Not in this century. I’ve never had sex in my life. True story.”

“What if I sat here the entire day and spouted out all this bullshit, and people take notes. It’s sad, it’s just sad. It’s just really fucking pitiful. What’s sadder, the note-taking or the iPhone recording? As if anything I say has any value.”

“I’ve basically been raped—not in a literal sense—but psychologically I’ve been penetrated several times today, from multiple angles.”

“If you ask Bob Dylan what his favorite record he’s ever done is he’s going to say Tempest. It’s like, bullshit.”

“I admire The Ramones and Patti Smith at the same level that I admire Bob Dylan, or like Biblical characters.”

“I just find the whole thing to be such a mindfuck of self-referential, intelligent, white crap. I’d rather watch a Tyler Perry movie any fucking day of the week.”

“I do believe in the use of hypnotics and old music.”

“I don’t listen to a lot of my peers, and I’m sure they don’t listen to Deerhunter.”

“I don’t know any modern groups that are really listening to each other. That’s weird. I don’t think there’s any inspiration to be drawn from culture at the moment.”

"I went to CVS, I went in to get a prescription for antiobiotic pills and the pharmacist goes, 'Shit, your name is BJ Cox?' And I was like yes, that's correct. I didn't really see the weirdness. And then he was like, 'You're serious?? BJ Cox??!!' And he just would not let it go, he was like 'Somebody named you that? For real?'"

“I own two houses, I own a saw.”

“Who is Connie Lugpin? There is no such person. Ryan Schrieber, founder of Pitchfork made that up, to generate more support for his liberal media organization. His liberal, left-leaning, the liberal media.”

“Have I insulted everybody? We’re all just whores for a commodity market. We’re all sucking the same dick.”

"If I wasn't a musician I would probably be a psychiatrist patient."

“I’m not positive I’ve been sarcastic at all during this entire interview.”