I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
GRIMESIn 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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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 write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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I prefer making videos to making music.
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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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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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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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 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’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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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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 always wanted to be really experimental.
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I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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