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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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I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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Instrument Pads Voice
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’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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Country Obsessed Stuff
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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Bigs Interest Video
I prefer making videos to making music.
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Making Music Video
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
Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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Deliver Shiver Song
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 don’t have any money to hire actors. I just need to get people who are going to do a good job being themselves.
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Jobs Needs People
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
If I think about what other people are thinking when I’m making music, I just can’t do it. It’s too withheld – I need to go totally over the top, and then kind of clean it up a bit and make it more reasonable after the fact.
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Facts Need People Reasonable Thinking
Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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Important Mean Philosophical
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 like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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Crazy General Going
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
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

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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