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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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I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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Broken Care Heart
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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Bigs Interest Video
Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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Basically Consistency Impressionable
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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Four Hours Important
I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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Country Obsessed Stuff
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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Artist Block People
I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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Crazy General Going
Especially with music, people want confidence.
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Confidence People Want
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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Crazy Sound Stars
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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Cities Country People Vancouver
I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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Instrument Pads Voice
Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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Deliver Shiver Song
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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Fit Runway Size Tired
I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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Anything Desire Intense Way
The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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Good Looks People Times
It’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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Issues People Teenagers

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