I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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Fashion can be a really powerful tool, but it’s also a place where you can be totally humiliated and have your power taken from you.
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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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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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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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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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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’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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 just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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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 don’t have any money to hire actors. I just need to get people who are going to do a good job being themselves.
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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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