I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
GRIMESFashion 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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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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Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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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 like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes 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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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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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Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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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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I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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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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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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I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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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