I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I’ll black out the windows or something.
GRIMESMy 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 have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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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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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 love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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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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Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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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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I think a lot of music that’s really innovative is not even considered because it was made by people who had a sexual image. And people assume that it’s a commodified thing, so it can’t be “indie.”
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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 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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I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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I always wanted to be really experimental.
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