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" I don't think I know anyone who has a steady job in Montreal. "

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" 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. "

" Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity. "

" I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it's the only thing that I can really know, I guess. "

" I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living. "

" It's really hard to be on stage and packing your gear when people who just saw you play are in the room, because they all just want to talk to you. "

" I'm against spending money to record. "

" 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 truly love 'Gangnam Style.' I guess it's a meme. I feel like it's one of the few times where the meme and the quality combines nicely. "

" There are a lot of musicians I've met on Twitter where it was like, 'Hey, I like your music' - and then I ended up meeting them and it turned into a friendship. "

" I'm actually not a particularly negative person, but I feel like most things are better when they're not actualized. The motivation that comes from wanting something is so much more driving of people than actually getting it. "

" I think if you're good at art, you'll be good at most types of art. "

" I don't own anything designer. "

" I start a lot of songs and throw them out because the energy is not right. It's almost like the file becomes cursed. I have to delete it. "

" I've always been such a nerd. "

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

" When I'm making a song that's very Grimes, it just feels very insular and it feels weird to have someone else do something on it. "

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

" I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa. "

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

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

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

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

" The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety. "

" I'm a super-introverted person. "

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

" I need to be able to work for 20 or 30 hours in one go in complete darkness, alone with just the computer glow. "

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

" 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. "

" Miami is just really fun whenever I go there. It's like this post-apocalyptic Barbie world: everything is pink, and there're palm trees everywhere. But then there are also all these people in crazy sunglasses, warehouses with sick parties where all the girls are covered in spikes and black leather. It's a very weird place. "