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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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I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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Music Stuck Thinking
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
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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Aggressive Bangs Cute Dresses
Especially with music, people want confidence.
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Confidence People Want
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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Fit Runway Size Tired
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 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
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
From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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Age Creative Unhappy
Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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Made Most Music Video
I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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Country Obsessed Stuff
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
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
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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Fashion Powerful Taken
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

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