I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
GRIMESI prefer making videos to making music.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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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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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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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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