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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

Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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Girl Successful Ugly
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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Artist Block People
From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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Age Creative Unhappy
Obviously, I like things that are cute and aggressive at the same time, but I didn’t want it to just be mini-bangs and lip-syncing in a dress. I need to get away from that stuff.
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Aggressive Bangs Cute Dresses
I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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Persons Sentimental
I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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Instrument Pads Voice
I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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Country Obsessed Stuff
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
Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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Deliver Shiver Song
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 prefer making videos to making music.
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Making Music Video
Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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Important Mean Philosophical
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 like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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Hard Performing Sick
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
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 get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.

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