I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
GRIMESI just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
More Grimes Quotes
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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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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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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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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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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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I think a lot of music that’s really innovative is not even considered because it was made by people who had a sexual image. And people assume that it’s a commodified thing, so it can’t be “indie.”
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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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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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I always wanted to be really experimental.
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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 just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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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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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