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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.

Grimes

If painters could be compared to filmmakers, Bosch is the Hype Williams of renaissance painters. With Bosch, there’s always a narrative that is very nonlinear – and that’s the essence of a good music video.
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Essence Hype Video
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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Character Findings Whole
I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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Instrument Pads Voice
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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Issues People Teenagers
I always wanted to be really experimental.
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Experimental Really Wanted
I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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Anything Desire Intense Way
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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Bigs Interest Video
Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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Made Most Music Video
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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Cameras Freak People
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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Crazy Sound Stars
I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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Broken Care Heart
Especially with music, people want confidence.
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Confidence People Want
I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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Country Obsessed Stuff
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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Facts Need People Reasonable Thinking
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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Hate People Shoes
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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Fit Runway Size Tired

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