I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
GRIMESObviously, 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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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 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 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’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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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The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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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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Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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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 just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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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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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 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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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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