I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
GRIMESI just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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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.
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I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I’ll black out the windows or something.
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I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.
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I approach music – and this sounds crazy – as though I’m Phil Spector, and I’m cranking out these pop stars and forcing them to do all this stuff – except they’re all me. But I’m not, like, transgendered.
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I don’t even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.
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I feel like gender lines are changing. A couple of years ago, it wasn’t nearly as OK for guys to like girly-sounding music. But all of a sudden a lot of my guys friends who would like have been really disdainful of female singers are way more accepting.
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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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If I think about what other people are thinking when I’m making music, I just can’t do it. It’s too withheld – I need to go totally over the top, and then kind of clean it up a bit and make it more reasonable after the fact.
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I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
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I find it really hard to throw myself into something artistically where I’m making up a whole character and finding something for that character to do.
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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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