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I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.

Grimes

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
The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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Good Looks People Times
Especially with music, people want confidence.
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Confidence People Want
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
I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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Dark Winter Writing
I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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Persons Sentimental
I always wanted to be really experimental.
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Experimental Really Wanted
Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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Deliver Shiver Song
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 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
I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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Instrument Pads Voice
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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Artist Crazy Moving
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 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 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
I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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Broken Care Heart

I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.

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