Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.
GRIMESMost of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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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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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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 write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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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 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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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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Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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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 get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
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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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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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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