Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
GRIMESI have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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 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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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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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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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 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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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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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I find it really hard to throw myself into something artistically where I’m making up a whole character and finding something for that character to do.
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If 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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