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.
GRIMESI want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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I always wanted to be really experimental.
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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 prefer making videos to making music.
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I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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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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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 just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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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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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Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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