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.
GRIMESI 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 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 have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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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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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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 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 definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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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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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’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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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Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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