From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
GRIMESIt’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 just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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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’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
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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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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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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 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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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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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.
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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 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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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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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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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