Especially with music, people want confidence.
GRIMESObviously, 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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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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Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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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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If 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 like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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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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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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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 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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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 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 prefer making videos to making music.
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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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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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I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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