I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I’ll black out the windows or something.
GRIMESIf 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 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 prefer making videos to making music.
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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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I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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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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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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I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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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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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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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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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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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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