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’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
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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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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 think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
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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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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 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 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 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 definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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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 always wanted to be really experimental.
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The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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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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