From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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 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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I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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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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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 think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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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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I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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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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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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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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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 just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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