I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
GRIMESI write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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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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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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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 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 prefer making videos to making music.
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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 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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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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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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I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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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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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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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Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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