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.
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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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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 have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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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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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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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 write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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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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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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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I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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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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