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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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Couple Female Guy
I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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Music Stuck Thinking
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
I prefer making videos to making music.
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Making Music Video
I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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Dark Winter Writing
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
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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Hate People Shoes
Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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Basically Consistency Impressionable
I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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Fashion Grimes Want
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 definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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Instrument Pads Voice
If painters could be compared to filmmakers, Bosch is the Hype Williams of renaissance painters. With Bosch, there’s always a narrative that is very nonlinear – and that’s the essence of a good music video.
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Essence Hype Video
Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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Deliver Shiver Song
Fashion can be a really powerful tool, but it’s also a place where you can be totally humiliated and have your power taken from you.
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Fashion Powerful Taken
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 only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I’ll black out the windows or something.
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Black Night Window

I always wanted to be really experimental.

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