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.
GRIMESI just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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When an artist, or whomever, moves from their scene to the bigger pond, it starts getting crazy, because all of a sudden people don’t respect you, and you have to start being a lot more aggressive than you would normally be.
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I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it’s the only thing that I can really know, I guess.
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I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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.
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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 like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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If painters could be compared to filmmakers, Bosch is the Hype Williams of renaissance painters. With Bosch, there’s always a narrative that is very nonlinear – and that’s the essence of a good music video.
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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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Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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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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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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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 have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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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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