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I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it’s the only thing that I can really know, I guess.

Grimes

I prefer making videos to making music.
GRIMES

Making Music Video
I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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Crazy General Going
I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
GRIMES

Hard Performing Sick
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.”
GRIMES

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

Anything Desire Intense Way
From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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Age Creative Unhappy
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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Hate People Shoes
I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
GRIMES

Country Obsessed Stuff
Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
GRIMES

Girl Successful Ugly
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
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.
GRIMES

Fashion Powerful Taken
I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
GRIMES

Fashion Grimes Want
Especially with music, people want confidence.
GRIMES

Confidence People Want
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.
GRIMES

Cities Country People Vancouver
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
Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
GRIMES

Deliver Shiver Song

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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