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.
GRIMESIt’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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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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When an artist, or whomever, moves from their scene to the bigger pond, it starts getting crazy, because all of a sudden people don’t respect you, and you have to start being a lot more aggressive than you would normally be.
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I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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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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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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Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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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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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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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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I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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I prefer making videos to making music.
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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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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