I don’t even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.
GRIMESSuccess, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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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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 like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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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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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 always wanted to be really experimental.
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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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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 think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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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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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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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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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I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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