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.
GRIMESSometimes 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 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 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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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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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I 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 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 like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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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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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 think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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 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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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 prefer making videos to making music.
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I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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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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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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 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 only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I’ll black out the windows or something.
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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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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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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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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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