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I always wanted to be really experimental.

Grimes

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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Artist Crazy Moving
Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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Made Most Music Video
I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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Instrument Pads Voice
I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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Dark Winter Writing
I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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Hard Performing Sick
From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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Age Creative Unhappy
I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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Anything Desire Intense Way
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.
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Artist Block People
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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Cameras Freak People
I prefer making videos to making music.
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Making Music Video
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.
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Issues People Teenagers
I always wanted to be really experimental.
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Experimental Really Wanted
I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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Fashion Grimes Want
I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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.
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Character Findings Whole
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.
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Facts Need People Reasonable Thinking

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