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.
GRIMESI always wanted to be really experimental.
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I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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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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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I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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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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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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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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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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I prefer making videos to making music.
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Lately I’ve been really into screaming a lot through delay [effects], having seven people on stage topless going crazy, stuff like that. Really in your face, but maybe more organic than choreographed dance moves.
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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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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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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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I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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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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