I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it’s the only thing that I can really know, I guess.
GRIMESI like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
More Grimes Quotes
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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 just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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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 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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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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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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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 only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I’ll black out the windows or something.
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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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I always wanted to be really experimental.
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When an artist, or whomever, moves from their scene to the bigger pond, it starts getting crazy, because all of a sudden people don’t respect you, and you have to start being a lot more aggressive than you would normally be.
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I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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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Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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