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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.

Grimes

I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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Music Stuck Thinking
I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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Country Obsessed Stuff
I prefer making videos to making music.
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Making Music Video
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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Crazy Moving People
I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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Instrument Pads Voice
I always wanted to be really experimental.
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Experimental Really Wanted
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
I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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Persons Sentimental
I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I’ll black out the windows or something.
GRIMES

Black Night Window
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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Essence Hype Video
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.
GRIMES

Jobs Needs People
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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Cities Country People Vancouver
I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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Anything Desire Intense Way
Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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Girl Successful Ugly
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

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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