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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.

Grimes

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.
GRIMES

Crazy Sound Stars
I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
GRIMES

Country Obsessed Stuff
I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
GRIMES

Bigs Interest Video
I always wanted to be really experimental.
GRIMES

Experimental Really Wanted
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

Jobs Needs People
I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
GRIMES

Hard Performing Sick
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.
GRIMES

Cities Country People Vancouver
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.
GRIMES

Aggressive Bangs Cute Dresses
I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
GRIMES

Broken Care Heart
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

Issues People Teenagers
I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it’s the only thing that I can really know, I guess.
GRIMES

Believe Humans Mind
It takes me probably about four hours to get into the groove [with making music]. And it’s really important for me to not break the groove.
GRIMES

Four Hours Important
I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
GRIMES

Music Stuck Thinking
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.
GRIMES

Character Findings Whole
Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
GRIMES

Important Mean Philosophical
I’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
GRIMES

Fit Runway Size Tired

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