I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
GRIMESI’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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 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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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 like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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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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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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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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Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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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 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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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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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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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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