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.
GRIMESJust because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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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 write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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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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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I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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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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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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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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 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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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 prefer making videos to making music.
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