I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
GRIMESI believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it’s the only thing that I can really know, I guess.
More Grimes Quotes
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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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I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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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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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 think a lot of music that’s really innovative is not even considered because it was made by people who had a sexual image. And people assume that it’s a commodified thing, so it can’t be “indie.”
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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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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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I prefer making videos to making music.
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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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I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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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.
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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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Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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