I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
GRIMESI 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 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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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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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 like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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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 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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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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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 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 only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I’ll black out the windows or something.
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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’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
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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 write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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