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.
GRIMESI 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 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 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 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 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 prefer making videos to making music.
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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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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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Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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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Obviously, I like things that are cute and aggressive at the same time, but I didn’t want it to just be mini-bangs and lip-syncing in a dress. I need to get away from that stuff.
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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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The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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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