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.
GRIMESI want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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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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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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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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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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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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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 think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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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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I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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