It’s important for people not to feel like doing things that are immature, stuff you have to try out when you’re a teenager, is bad, per se. Demonizing it is one of the reasons it becomes such an issue.
GRIMESIt’s important for people not to feel like doing things that are immature, stuff you have to try out when you’re a teenager, is bad, per se. Demonizing it is one of the reasons it becomes such an issue.
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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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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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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I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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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 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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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.
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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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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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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 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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I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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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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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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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