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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.

Grimes

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 going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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Crazy General Going
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
I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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Country Obsessed Stuff
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 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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Assuming People Thinking
Especially with music, people want confidence.
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Confidence People Want
Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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Deliver Shiver Song
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 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
I prefer making videos to making music.
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Making Music Video
I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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Music Stuck Thinking
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 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
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 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

Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.

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