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.
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.
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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’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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Lately 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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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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I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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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 want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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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I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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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 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’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
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When 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.
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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 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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