Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.
GRIMESFrom an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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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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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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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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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff 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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I prefer making videos to making music.
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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 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 want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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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The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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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 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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