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The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.

Grimes

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 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
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
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 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
Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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Deliver Shiver Song
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 get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
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Bigs Interest Video
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
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
I always wanted to be really experimental.
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Experimental Really Wanted
Especially with music, people want confidence.
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Confidence People Want
I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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Country Obsessed Stuff
I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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Music Stuck Thinking
I’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
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Fit Runway Size Tired
Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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Made Most Music Video
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
If painters could be compared to filmmakers, Bosch is the Hype Williams of renaissance painters. With Bosch, there’s always a narrative that is very nonlinear – and that’s the essence of a good music video.
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Essence Hype Video
I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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Crazy General Going
I think a lot of music that’s really innovative is not even considered because it was made by people who had a sexual image. And people assume that it’s a commodified thing, so it can’t be “indie.”
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Assuming People Thinking
Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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Basically Consistency Impressionable
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
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
From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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Age Creative Unhappy
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

The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.

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