It takes me probably about four hours to get into the groove [with making music]. And it’s really important for me to not break the groove.
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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.”
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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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I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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I prefer making videos to making music.
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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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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
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If I think about what other people are thinking when I’m making music, I just can’t do it. It’s too withheld – I need to go totally over the top, and then kind of clean it up a bit and make it more reasonable after the fact.
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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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I don’t even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.
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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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I approach music – and this sounds crazy – as though I’m Phil Spector, and I’m cranking out these pop stars and forcing them to do all this stuff – except they’re all me. But I’m not, like, transgendered.
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I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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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 want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.
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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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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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I’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
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I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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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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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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