I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
GRIMESIf 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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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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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 like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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I prefer making videos to making music.
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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 definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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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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Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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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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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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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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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.
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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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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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I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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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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I always wanted to be really experimental.
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I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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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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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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