I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
GRIMESI definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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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 always wanted to be really experimental.
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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 approach music – and this sounds crazy – as though I’m Phil Spector, and I’m cranking out these pop stars and forcing them to do all this stuff – except they’re all me. But I’m not, like, transgendered.
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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 write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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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I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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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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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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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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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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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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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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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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I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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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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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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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 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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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 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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Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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I don’t even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.
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