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I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.

Grimes

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 always wanted to be really experimental.
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Experimental Really Wanted
Especially with music, people want confidence.
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Confidence People Want
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 want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
GRIMES

Fashion Grimes Want
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
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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Issues People Teenagers
The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
GRIMES

Good Looks People Times
Fashion can be a really powerful tool, but it’s also a place where you can be totally humiliated and have your power taken from you.
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Fashion Powerful Taken
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 definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
GRIMES

Instrument Pads Voice
Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
GRIMES

Deliver Shiver Song
Obviously, I like things that are cute and aggressive at the same time, but I didn’t want it to just be mini-bangs and lip-syncing in a dress. I need to get away from that stuff.
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Aggressive Bangs Cute Dresses
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
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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Fit Runway Size Tired
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

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