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.
GrimesI have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there.
GrimesI usually like to get people in because I don't have a band or anything. In cities where I have friends, I try to get them to come out and dance for me.
GrimesIt's important for people not to feel like doing things that are immature, stuff you have to try out when you're a teenager, is bad, per se. Demonizing it is one of the reasons it becomes such an issue.
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