Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
GRIMESI prefer making videos to making music.
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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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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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The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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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 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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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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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 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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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 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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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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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 definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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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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I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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