I’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
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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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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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 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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The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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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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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 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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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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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Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.
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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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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.
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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 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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