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.
GRIMESI like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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When an artist, or whomever, moves from their scene to the bigger pond, it starts getting crazy, because all of a sudden people don’t respect you, and you have to start being a lot more aggressive than you would normally be.
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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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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I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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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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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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I always wanted to be really experimental.
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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’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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 want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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In America there’s lot of cool cities, but in Canada there’s, like, well, Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax may be cool, but they’re so expensive. Montreal is the only city that’s affordable but also has buses and culture.
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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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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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Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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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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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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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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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 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’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
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