I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
GRIMESI’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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 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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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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 write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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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 think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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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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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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 only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I’ll black out the windows or something.
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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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