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" I can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not. "

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" I just can't perform well unless I'm wearing jeans. "

" I'm against spending money to record. "

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

" As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality. "

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

" 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. "

" There's definitely a solitary aspect to not having a band, and there are times when I wish that I did. "

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

" In America there's lot of cool cities, but in Canada there's, like, well, Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax may be cool, but they're so expensive. Montreal is the only city that's affordable but also has buses and culture. "

" By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself. "

" The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you. "

" There used to be a lot of industry in Montreal, and now there's not, so it's really easy to get huge, empty spaces where you can practice and make music or make art for very, very cheap. "

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

" I don't even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me. "

" I think my sound is post-Internet. "

" I always wanted to be really experimental. "

" Basically, I'm really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do. "

" I'm tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway. "

" I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues. "

" Usually I perform with dancers. "

" I'm tired of being considered vapid for liking pop music or caring about fashion as if these things inherently lack substance or as if the things I enjoy somehow make me a lesser person. "

" I'm a very nervous, shy person. "

" My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It's a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district. "

" I'm a very unhealthy person, and Montreal is very cold, and I'm usually sick when I'm there. "

" Especially with music, people want confidence. "

" If you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you're doing musically. "

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

" It's interesting to be a front person who is controlling the majority of the sound. "

" I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there. "