I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I’ll black out the windows or something.
GRIMESI only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I’ll black out the windows or something.
GRIMESI like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
GRIMESObviously, I like things that are cute and aggressive at the same time, but I didn’t want it to just be mini-bangs and lip-syncing in a dress. I need to get away from that stuff.
GRIMESIf 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.
GRIMESI definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
GRIMESI love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
GRIMESI believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it’s the only thing that I can really know, I guess.
GRIMESIn 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.
GRIMESI don’t have any money to hire actors. I just need to get people who are going to do a good job being themselves.
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 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.”
GRIMESI just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
GRIMESWhen 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.
GRIMESSometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.
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.
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