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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 have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
GRIMES

Anything Desire Intense Way
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 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
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.
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Facts Need People Reasonable Thinking
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.
GRIMES

Crazy Sound Stars
Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.
GRIMES

Cameras Freak People
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.
GRIMES

Aggressive Bangs Cute Dresses
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.
GRIMES

Essence Hype Video
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.
GRIMES

Issues People Teenagers
Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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Basically Consistency Impressionable
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
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.
GRIMES

Artist Block People
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
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
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 don’t have any money to hire actors. I just need to get people who are going to do a good job being themselves.
GRIMES

Jobs Needs People

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