I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
GRIMESI 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 prefer making videos to making music.
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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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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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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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I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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 want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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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 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 love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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I always wanted to be really experimental.
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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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