I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
GRIMESLately 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 get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
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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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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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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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 think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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 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 just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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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 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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I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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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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