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.
GRIMESEspecially with music, people want confidence.
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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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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 definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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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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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 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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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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I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
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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 always wanted to be really experimental.
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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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I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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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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