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.
GRIMESI love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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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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The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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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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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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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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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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 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 think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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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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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I think a lot of music that’s really innovative is not even considered because it was made by people who had a sexual image. And people assume that it’s a commodified thing, so it can’t be “indie.”
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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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