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.
GRIMESMost of my music videos were made for under $200.
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I prefer making videos to making music.
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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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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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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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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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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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 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 love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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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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