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GRIMESI have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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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 going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it’s the only thing that I can really know, I guess.
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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’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
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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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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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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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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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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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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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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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I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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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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