I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
GRIMESI like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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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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I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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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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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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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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 have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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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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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 want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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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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