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.
GRIMESUgly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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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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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 like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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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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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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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 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 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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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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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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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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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Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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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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Obviously, 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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I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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I always wanted to be really experimental.
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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 write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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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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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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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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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 want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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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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