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Grimes

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 want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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Fashion Grimes Want
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
I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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Broken Care Heart
I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
GRIMES

Music Stuck Thinking
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
From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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Age Creative Unhappy
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 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
I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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Dark Winter Writing
Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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Basically Consistency Impressionable
I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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Country Obsessed Stuff
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
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
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
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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