I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
GRIMESThe most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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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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I 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 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 always wanted to be really experimental.
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I don’t even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.
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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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Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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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’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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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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 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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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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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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