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Grimes

I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
GRIMES

Hard Performing Sick
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.
GRIMES

Crazy Sound Stars
I always wanted to be really experimental.
GRIMES

Experimental Really Wanted
Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
GRIMES

Basically Consistency Impressionable
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.
GRIMES

Couple Female Guy
The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
GRIMES

Good Looks People Times
I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
GRIMES

Country Obsessed Stuff
I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
GRIMES

Bigs Interest Video
Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
GRIMES

Deliver Shiver Song
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.
GRIMES

Facts Need People Reasonable Thinking
I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
GRIMES

Dark Winter Writing
I prefer making videos to making music.
GRIMES

Making Music Video
I don’t even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.
GRIMES

Hate People Shoes
Especially with music, people want confidence.
GRIMES

Confidence People Want
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.
GRIMES

Four Hours Important
I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
GRIMES

Crazy General Going

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