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.
GRIMESIn 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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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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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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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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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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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The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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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 just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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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 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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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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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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I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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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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