I prefer making videos to making music.
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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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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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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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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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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 love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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 just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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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 only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I’ll black out the windows or something.
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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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