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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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Cities Country People Vancouver
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
Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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Made Most Music Video
I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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Music Stuck Thinking
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
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 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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Character Findings Whole
Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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Basically Consistency Impressionable
From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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Age Creative Unhappy
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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Believe Humans Mind
I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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Crazy General Going
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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Jobs Needs People
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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Assuming People Thinking
Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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Important Mean Philosophical
I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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Dark Winter Writing
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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Cameras Freak People

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 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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