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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.

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
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 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 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
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
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
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
I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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Country Obsessed Stuff
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 think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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Music Stuck Thinking
Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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Basically Consistency Impressionable
I think a lot of music that’s really innovative is not even considered because it was made by people who had a sexual image. And people assume that it’s a commodified thing, so it can’t be “indie.”
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Assuming People Thinking
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 prefer making videos to making music.
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Making Music Video
I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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Crazy General Going
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

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