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Grimes

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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Artist Block People
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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Hate People Shoes
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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Cameras Freak People
From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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Age Creative Unhappy
I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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Crazy General Going
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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Character Findings Whole
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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Black Night Window
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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Jobs Needs People
I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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Country Obsessed Stuff
I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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Music Stuck Thinking
I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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Hard Performing Sick
Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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Important Mean Philosophical
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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Facts Need People Reasonable Thinking
I prefer making videos to making music.
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Making Music Video
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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Couple Female Guy
The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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Good Looks People Times

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