I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it’s the only thing that I can really know, I guess.
GRIMESI think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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I prefer making videos to making music.
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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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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.
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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 like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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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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I always wanted to be really experimental.
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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 get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
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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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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 just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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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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