The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
GRIMESI love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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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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I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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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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I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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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 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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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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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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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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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 think a lot of music that’s really innovative is not even considered because it was made by people who had a sexual image. And people assume that it’s a commodified thing, so it can’t be “indie.”
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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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I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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