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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.

Grimes

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 even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.
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Hate People Shoes
I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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Fashion Grimes Want
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.
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Jobs Needs People
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 have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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Anything Desire Intense Way
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
I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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Crazy General Going
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 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
I always wanted to be really experimental.
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Experimental Really Wanted
Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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Basically Consistency Impressionable
I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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Music Stuck Thinking
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
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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Couple Female Guy
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
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
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 love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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Persons Sentimental
Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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Deliver Shiver Song
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
Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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Made Most Music Video
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.
GRIMES

Character Findings Whole
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
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
I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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Instrument Pads Voice

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