I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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 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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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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The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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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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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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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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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Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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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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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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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I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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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I prefer making videos to making music.
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I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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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 have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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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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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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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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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 love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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