From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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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I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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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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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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The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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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 get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
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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’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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 have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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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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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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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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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 definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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