I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
GRIMESI 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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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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I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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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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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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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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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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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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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 always wanted to be really experimental.
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I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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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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I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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 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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