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.”
GRIMESI 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 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 love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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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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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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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 always wanted to be really experimental.
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I don’t have any money to hire actors. I just need to get people who are going to do a good job being themselves.
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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 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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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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I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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 have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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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