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.
GRIMESI have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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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 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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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 prefer making videos to making music.
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I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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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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I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I’ll black out the windows or something.
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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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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 have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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