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.
GRIMESFrom an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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I always wanted to be really experimental.
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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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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 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 prefer making videos to making music.
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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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I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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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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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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 definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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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