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My favorite music is often the opposite of what other people love, and the speaker admits a constant urge to create new songs. They mention turning down big‑budget video offers and point out that few artists both sing and produce well, a gap they see in the scene. Early work was slow, psychedelic, and ambient.

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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.

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I prefer making videos to making music.

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Music is a religion to me and my friends.

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I listen to a lot of medieval music.

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Especially with music, people want confidence.

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I'm not trained in music.

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I think Canadians make a lot of music because we're stuck inside all the time.

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I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it's dark.

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My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.

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I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.

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I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it.

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The last thing I think about when I'm making music is its reception.

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The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human beings to do. Once you…

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I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at…

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I think a lot of music that's really innovative is not even considered because it was made by people who had a…

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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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I think my music's kind of cold, but I don't know if it's related to the weather. It might be because it's…

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When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do.

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If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship.

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It's kind of like I'm Phil Spector, and I'm forcing a young girl to make pop music and perform exhaustively. Except, instead…

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If I'll be sexualized, it wouldn't be because I was wearing sexy clothes, because I look like a baby. But music is…

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I grew up going to punk shows, that kind of thing - I don't wanna make pop punk! - but I like…

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I approach music - and this sounds crazy - as though I'm Phil Spector, and I'm cranking out these pop stars and…

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I went through my adolescence having this revelatory experience - I can have any music I want, and I can get it…

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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…

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I'm so sick of my own music that I don't know if I can edit another video, which involves hundreds of hours…

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If I think about what other people are thinking when I'm making music, I just can't do it. It's too withheld -…

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I think you can hear, when you listen to someone's music, whether or not they're enjoying making it - it's so great…

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It takes me probably about four hours to get into the groove [with making music]. And it's really important for me to…

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I love pop music, but I also love noise music, IDM - anything really, I get something out of most kinds of…

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You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a…

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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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My favorite music is never the music that anyone else likes, and other people's favorite songs are always my least favorite.

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There used to be a lot of industry in Montreal, and now there's not, so it's really easy to get huge, empty…

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Whenever I'm making music I'm always waiting for the shivers to happen - that's an important thing for me.

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I'm tired of being considered vapid for liking pop music or caring about fashion as if these things inherently lack substance or…

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There are a lot of musicians I've met on Twitter where it was like, 'Hey, I like your music' - and then…

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I think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played…

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If painters could be compared to filmmakers, Bosch is the Hype Williams of renaissance painters. With Bosch, there's always a narrative that…

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Usually when I make music, in my head I'm like 'this isn't Grimes, this is just some other project that you can…

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My favorite music is never the music that anyone else likes, and other people's favorite songs are always my least favorite.

Especially with music, people want confidence.

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When I'm making something I need it to be catchy - I need it to hit the sweet spot.

I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do.

From an early age, I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.

I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.

I don't own anything designer.

It's kind of like I'm Phil Spector, and I'm forcing a young girl to make pop music and perform exhaustively. Except, instead of it…