From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
GRIMESI prefer making videos to making music.
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I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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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I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it’s the only thing that I can really know, I guess.
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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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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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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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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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I always wanted to be really experimental.
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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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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It takes me probably about four hours to get into the groove [with making music]. And it’s really important for me to not break the groove.
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I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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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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