I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
GRIMESI just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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It’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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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 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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Lately I’ve been really into screaming a lot through delay [effects], having seven people on stage topless going crazy, stuff like that. Really in your face, but maybe more organic than choreographed dance moves.
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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 always wanted to be really experimental.
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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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Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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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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It takes me probably about four hours to get into the groove [with making music]. And it’s really important for me to not break the groove.
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Fashion can be a really powerful tool, but it’s also a place where you can be totally humiliated and have your power taken from you.
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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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