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.
GRIMESI prefer making videos to making music.
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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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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 write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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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 think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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 like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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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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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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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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 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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Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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