Usually I perform with dancers.
The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.
I can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not.
You want people to hate you. If you're just making people happy, you're like Mumford & Sons.
I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there.
I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
I don't own anything designer.
I think my sound is post-Internet.
I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I'm on tour, and it's just hard.
If you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you're doing musically.
I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
I've always been very intense about everything I do.
If I went on 'American Idol,' I would definitely be kicked out immediately.
I've always been such a nerd.
I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do.
I've seen Animal Collective live, and I suffered permanent hearing loss from that show!
My dream job would be sitting in a room, cranking out hits for Rihanna.
It's interesting to be a front person who is controlling the majority of the sound.
My set can get really screamo and aggressive, or it can be ambient and Enya-esque.
There's definitely a solitary aspect to not having a band, and there are times when I wish that I did.
If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship.
