I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
GRIMESUgly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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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 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 want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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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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 tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
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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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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 like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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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 only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I’ll black out the windows or something.
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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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