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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.

Grimes

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
Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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Girl Successful Ugly
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
From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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Age Creative Unhappy
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
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
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
Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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Basically Consistency Impressionable
I prefer making videos to making music.
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Making Music Video
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
I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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Dark Winter Writing
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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Aggressive Bangs Cute Dresses
I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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Hard Performing Sick
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
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 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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