I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I’ll black out the windows or something.
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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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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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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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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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 think a lot of music that’s really innovative is not even considered because it was made by people who had a sexual image. And people assume that it’s a commodified thing, so it can’t be “indie.”
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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 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’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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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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 write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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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 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 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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