I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
GRIMESI 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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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 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 only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I’ll black out the windows or something.
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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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 love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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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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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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The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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 want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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 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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