Especially with music, people want confidence.
GRIMESI just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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 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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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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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 prefer making videos to making music.
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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 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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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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 always wanted to be really experimental.
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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 just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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