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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.

Grimes

I always wanted to be really experimental.
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Experimental Really Wanted
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
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
Especially with music, people want confidence.
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Confidence People Want
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
I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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Country Obsessed Stuff
I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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Instrument Pads Voice
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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Issues People Teenagers
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
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 think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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Music Stuck Thinking
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 want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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Fashion Grimes Want
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.
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Artist Crazy Moving
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 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

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