I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
GRIMESI think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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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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 think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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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My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It’s a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district.
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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’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 prefer making videos to making music.
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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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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 always wanted to be really experimental.
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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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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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The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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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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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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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 like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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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I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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 write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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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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