I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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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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 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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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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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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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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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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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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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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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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 like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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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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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 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 like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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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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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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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Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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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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If I think about what other people are thinking when I’m making music, I just can’t do it. It’s too withheld – I need to go totally over the top, and then kind of clean it up a bit and make it more reasonable after the fact.
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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 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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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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