Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
GRIMESI like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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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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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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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 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 like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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I think a lot of music that’s really innovative is not even considered because it was made by people who had a sexual image. And people assume that it’s a commodified thing, so it can’t be “indie.”
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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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I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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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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I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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 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 definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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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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