I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
GRIMESI just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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I always wanted to be really experimental.
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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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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.
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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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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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I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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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 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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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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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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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