I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it’s the only thing that I can really know, I guess.
GRIMESUgly 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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Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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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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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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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 like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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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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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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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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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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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The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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 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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