I think a lot of music that’s really innovative is not even considered because it was made by people who had a sexual image. And people assume that it’s a commodified thing, so it can’t be “indie.”
GRIMESIt’s important for people not to feel like doing things that are immature, stuff you have to try out when you’re a teenager, is bad, per se. Demonizing it is one of the reasons it becomes such an issue.
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Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It’s a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district.
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I feel like gender lines are changing. A couple of years ago, it wasn’t nearly as OK for guys to like girly-sounding music. But all of a sudden a lot of my guys friends who would like have been really disdainful of female singers are way more accepting.
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I always wanted to be really experimental.
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In America there’s lot of cool cities, but in Canada there’s, like, well, Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax may be cool, but they’re so expensive. Montreal is the only city that’s affordable but also has buses and culture.
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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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I prefer making videos to making music.
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I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I’ll black out the windows or something.
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When an artist, or whomever, moves from their scene to the bigger pond, it starts getting crazy, because all of a sudden people don’t respect you, and you have to start being a lot more aggressive than you would normally be.
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I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it’s the only thing that I can really know, I guess.
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I find it really hard to throw myself into something artistically where I’m making up a whole character and finding something for that character to do.
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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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I don’t have any money to hire actors. I just need to get people who are going to do a good job being themselves.
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Obviously, I like things that are cute and aggressive at the same time, but I didn’t want it to just be mini-bangs and lip-syncing in a dress. I need to get away from that stuff.
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