I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
GRIMESI always wanted to be really experimental.
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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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 have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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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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I always wanted to be really experimental.
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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 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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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 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 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 love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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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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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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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Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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