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.
GRIMESIf 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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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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I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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It takes me probably about four hours to get into the groove [with making music]. And it’s really important for me to not break the groove.
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I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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I prefer making videos to making music.
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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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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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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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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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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Lately I’ve been really into screaming a lot through delay [effects], having seven people on stage topless going crazy, stuff like that. Really in your face, but maybe more organic than choreographed dance moves.
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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 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 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 like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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