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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.

Grimes

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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Believe Humans Mind
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
Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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Made Most Music Video
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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Fit Runway Size Tired
I always wanted to be really experimental.
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Experimental Really Wanted
From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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Age Creative Unhappy
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
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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Four Hours Important
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
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
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 write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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Dark Winter Writing
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’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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Country Obsessed Stuff
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
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
I prefer making videos to making music.
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Making Music Video
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
I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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Fashion Grimes Want
I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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Crazy General Going
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
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 just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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Broken Care Heart
Especially with music, people want confidence.
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Confidence People Want
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 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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Character Findings Whole
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

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