From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
GRIMESI 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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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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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 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’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
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It’s important for people not to feel like doing things that are immature, stuff you have to try out when you’re a teenager, is bad, per se. Demonizing it is one of the reasons it becomes such an issue.
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Fashion can be a really powerful tool, but it’s also a place where you can be totally humiliated and have your power taken from you.
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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 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’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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 like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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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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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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