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.
GRIMESI 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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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 have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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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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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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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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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I’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
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I always wanted to be really experimental.
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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 just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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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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I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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