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.
GRIMESEspecially with music, people want confidence.
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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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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 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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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 get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
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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’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
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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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Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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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’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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 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 always wanted to be really experimental.
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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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