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I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.

Grimes

Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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Basically Consistency Impressionable
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
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
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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Four Hours Important
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
I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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Music Stuck Thinking
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 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 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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Believe Humans Mind
Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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Deliver Shiver Song
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
I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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Dark Winter Writing
I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
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Bigs Interest Video
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 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.
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Crazy Sound Stars
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

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