I prefer making videos to making music.
GRIMESThe most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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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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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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 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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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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Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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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 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 definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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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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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 write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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