I always wanted to be really experimental.
GRIMESI 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’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 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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Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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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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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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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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 just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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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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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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I prefer making videos to making music.
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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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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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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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Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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