I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
GRIMESMost of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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 definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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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 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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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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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 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 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 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 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 tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
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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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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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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