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’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
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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 think a lot of music that’s really innovative is not even considered because it was made by people who had a sexual image. And people assume that it’s a commodified thing, so it can’t be “indie.”
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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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I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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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 prefer making videos to making music.
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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’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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’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 have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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