I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
GRIMESFrom an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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I prefer making videos to making music.
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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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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 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 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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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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My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It’s a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district.
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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 like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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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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I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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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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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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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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