I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
GRIMESI love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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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 only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I’ll black out the windows or something.
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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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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 just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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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 want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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I prefer making videos to making music.
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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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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 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 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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The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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