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.”
GRIMESBasically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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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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 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 only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I’ll black out the windows or something.
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I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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I always wanted to be really experimental.
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I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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 like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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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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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 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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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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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