I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
GRIMESEspecially with music, people want confidence.
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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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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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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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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I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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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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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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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 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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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 definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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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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