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.
GRIMESI 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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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 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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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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I prefer making videos to making music.
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I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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I don’t have any money to hire actors. I just need to get people who are going to do a good job being themselves.
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I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
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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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