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 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 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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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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I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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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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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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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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 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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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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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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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 always wanted to be really experimental.
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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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