I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
GRIMESI want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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 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 write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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 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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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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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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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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 get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
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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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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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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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