I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
GRIMESI like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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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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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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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 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 definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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I prefer making videos to making music.
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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 like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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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 get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
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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 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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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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