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.
GRIMESI write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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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 prefer making videos to making music.
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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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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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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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I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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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 think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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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Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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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