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.
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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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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Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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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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I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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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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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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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 always wanted to be really experimental.
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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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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 like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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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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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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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