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GRIMESI 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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I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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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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I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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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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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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I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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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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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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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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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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I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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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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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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