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.
GRIMESI prefer making videos to making music.
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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 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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The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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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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I always wanted to be really experimental.
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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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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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I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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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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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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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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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I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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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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