I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
GRIMESI 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 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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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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Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.
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I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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I always wanted to be really experimental.
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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 write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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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 have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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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 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 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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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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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