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.
GRIMESIt 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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Obviously, 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.
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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 Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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 love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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 want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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 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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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’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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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It’s important for people not to feel like doing things that are immature, stuff you have to try out when you’re a teenager, is bad, per se. Demonizing it is one of the reasons it becomes such an issue.
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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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