I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
GRIMESSometimes 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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Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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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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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 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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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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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’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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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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 write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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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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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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I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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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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Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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