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"In order to feel real happiness there has to be an awareness of real sadness."

- Metric's Emily Haines

[Haines was born in New Delhi, India and raised in Canada, where her poet father, the late Paul Haines, instilled in her the idea that she could make a career from creativity... "I was coming from a very punk rock aethetic of, "fuck that, fashion has no place in music", she says. "I've come to realise that's complete bullshit. What you're wearing says something about you, whatever you want it to say, but there's no option of being mute."]