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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.

Grimes

I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
GRIMES

Instrument Pads Voice
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
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

Crazy Moving People
Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
GRIMES

Made Most Music Video
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

Artist Block People
The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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Good Looks People Times
I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
GRIMES

Country Obsessed Stuff
I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I’ll black out the windows or something.
GRIMES

Black Night Window
I always wanted to be really experimental.
GRIMES

Experimental Really Wanted
I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
GRIMES

Fashion Grimes Want
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.
GRIMES

Fashion Powerful Taken
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
Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
GRIMES

Basically Consistency Impressionable
Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
GRIMES

Girl Successful Ugly
Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
GRIMES

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.
GRIMES

Cameras Freak People

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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