I always wanted to be really experimental.
GRIMESI love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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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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 like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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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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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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 love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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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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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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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 like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
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