I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
GRIMESI like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
More Grimes Quotes
-
-
Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
GRIMES -
I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
GRIMES -
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.
GRIMES -
I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
GRIMES -
Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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 -
I’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
GRIMES -
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.
GRIMES -
I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
GRIMES -
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.
GRIMES -
I prefer making videos to making music.
GRIMES -
I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
GRIMES -
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.
GRIMES -
I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
GRIMES -
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.
GRIMES