From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
GRIMESWhen 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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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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I always wanted to be really experimental.
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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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I prefer making videos to making music.
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My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It’s a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district.
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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’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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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