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Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.

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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
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
Lately I’ve been really into screaming a lot through delay [effects], having seven people on stage topless going crazy, stuff like that. Really in your face, but maybe more organic than choreographed dance moves.
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Crazy Moving People
Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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Made Most Music Video
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 like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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Crazy General Going
I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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Country Obsessed Stuff
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
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 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
Especially with music, people want confidence.
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Confidence People Want
I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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Instrument Pads Voice
Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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Basically Consistency Impressionable
I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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Music Stuck Thinking
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
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

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