Especially with music, people want confidence.
GRIMESIf 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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The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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 always wanted to be really experimental.
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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 like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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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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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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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I 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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I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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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’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
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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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