I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
GRIMESFashion 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 love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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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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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 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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Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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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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I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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 think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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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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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.
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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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