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.
GRIMESBasically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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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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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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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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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 just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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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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It takes me probably about four hours to get into the groove [with making music]. And it’s really important for me to not break the groove.
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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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 tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
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