Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.
GRIMESEspecially with music, people want confidence.
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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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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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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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 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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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 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 have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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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 love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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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