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I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I'm on tour, and it's just hard.
Ugly girls generally don't become successful in music. And it sucks because it's a standard that just exists.
I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it's dark.
You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a missing link in the music scene.
The groove can go for like three days - once I'm in it it will just keep going until I'm totally exhausted. But that's how I like to work, I like to be away from everyone and just get in the zone, and stay there for as long as I can keep it there.
I want to say my life inspires my lyrics, but I also try to abstract them as much as possible because I don't want to refer to my life explicitly. I'm definitely really embarrassed by my lyrics.
I would never go to a studio. I need my space, you know what I mean? I need to be able to chain smoke and pace about, cry and like. . . spit. Just make noise, make a huge mess. I also feel like if I was concerned for the cost of the studio - like, 'this is costing 40 dollars an hour' - I wouldn't be able to work.
Lets make it known that we don't want to give away our beautiful homeland to corporate interests. It is our right as Canadians to be part of these decisions. The only thing standing between this world and environmental catastrophe is us
I always wanted to be really experimental.
Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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 being someone else, that girl is also me.
I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.
I don't know if I would ever have costume changes - usually I just end up taking off my shoes, I get so sweaty, and. . . I just need to be comfortable.
I think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played with no monitors standing in front of guitar amps in a shitty, smoky warehouse where people were screaming and wasted, knocking over my gear. So shows after that seem pretty easy!
I prefer making videos to making music.
I think Canadians make a lot of music because we're stuck inside all the time.
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.
The last thing I think about when I'm making music is its reception.
I listen to a lot of medieval music.
My great fear is that I'm the ultimate shallow person. I think about this kind of thing a lot, and about this phenomenon in our culture where people identify themselves with their interests. I've been trying not to think about it too much. It used to really upset me when people called me "witch house. "