Lately I’ve been really into screaming a lot through delay [effects], having seven people on stage topless going crazy, stuff like that. Really in your face, but maybe more organic than choreographed dance moves.
GRIMESI think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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Obviously, I like things that are cute and aggressive at the same time, but I didn’t want it to just be mini-bangs and lip-syncing in a dress. I need to get away from that stuff.
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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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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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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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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I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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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 like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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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 think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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 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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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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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