I don’t even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.
GRIMESI just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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It takes me probably about four hours to get into the groove [with making music]. And it’s really important for me to not break the groove.
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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 only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I’ll black out the windows or something.
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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 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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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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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 definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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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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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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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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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I always wanted to be really experimental.
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