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I always wanted to be really experimental.

Grimes

Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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Girl Successful Ugly
Especially with music, people want confidence.
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Confidence People Want
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
I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I’ll black out the windows or something.
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Black Night Window
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.
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Cities Country People Vancouver
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.
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Fashion Powerful Taken
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
Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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Basically Consistency Impressionable
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.
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Crazy Sound Stars
Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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Made Most Music Video
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
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
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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Hate People Shoes
I always wanted to be really experimental.
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Experimental Really Wanted
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.
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Aggressive Bangs Cute Dresses
Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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Important Mean Philosophical
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 want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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Fashion Grimes Want
I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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Persons Sentimental
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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Couple Female Guy
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.
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Jobs Needs People
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.
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Crazy Moving People
I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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Crazy General Going
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 think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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Music Stuck Thinking
I prefer making videos to making music.
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Making Music Video
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

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