I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
GRIMESI like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
GRIMESI 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.
GRIMESEspecially with music, people want confidence.
GRIMESJust because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
GRIMESUgly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
GRIMESI definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
GRIMESFashion 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.
GRIMESIf 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.
GRIMESI want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
GRIMESBasically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
GRIMESI 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 love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
GRIMESI always wanted to be really experimental.
GRIMESI don’t even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.
GRIMESLately 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.
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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