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.
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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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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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 always wanted to be really experimental.
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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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 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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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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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 like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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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’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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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I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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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 just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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