When an artist, or whomever, moves from their scene to the bigger pond, it starts getting crazy, because all of a sudden people don’t respect you, and you have to start being a lot more aggressive than you would normally be.
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.
If I think about what other people are thinking when I’m making music, I just can’t do it. It’s too withheld – I need to go totally over the top, and then kind of clean it up a bit and make it more reasonable after the fact.
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.
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.
![Grimes Quote - I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I’ll black out the windows or something.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/i-only-work-at-night-generally-usually-when-i-work-683x1024.jpg)
![Grimes Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/it-takes-me-probably-about-four-hours-to-get-into--683x1024.jpg)
