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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 have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
GRIMES

Anything Desire Intense Way
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

Facts Need People Reasonable Thinking
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
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
Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.
GRIMES

Cameras Freak People
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
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 always wanted to be really experimental.
GRIMES

Experimental Really Wanted
Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
GRIMES

Made Most Music Video
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
Especially with music, people want confidence.
GRIMES

Confidence People Want
I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
GRIMES

Country Obsessed Stuff
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

Couple Female Guy
Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
GRIMES

Deliver Shiver Song
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 prefer making videos to making music.
GRIMES

Making Music Video

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.

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