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.
GRIMESI definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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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 always wanted to be really experimental.
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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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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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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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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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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I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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Lately I’ve been really into screaming a lot through delay [effects], having seven people on stage topless going crazy, stuff like that. Really in your face, but maybe more organic than choreographed dance moves.
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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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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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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