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I prefer making videos to making music.

Grimes

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
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 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
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 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 want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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Fashion Grimes Want
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 write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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Dark Winter Writing
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 definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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Instrument Pads Voice
I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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Crazy General Going
I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
GRIMES

Country Obsessed Stuff
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 love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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Persons Sentimental
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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Cameras Freak People
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

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