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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 prefer making videos to making music.
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Making Music Video
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
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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Cities Country People Vancouver
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 think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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Music Stuck 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
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 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 like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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Crazy General Going
From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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Age Creative Unhappy
I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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Dark Winter Writing
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
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 always wanted to be really experimental.
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Experimental Really Wanted
I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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Country Obsessed Stuff
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

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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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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