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.
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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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 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 write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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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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Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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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 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 prefer making videos to making music.
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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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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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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 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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The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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