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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.

Grimes

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.
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Jobs Needs People
I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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Fashion Grimes Want
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.
GRIMES

Facts Need People Reasonable Thinking
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.
GRIMES

Four Hours Important
I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
GRIMES

Bigs Interest Video
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
I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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Country Obsessed Stuff
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.
GRIMES

Couple Female Guy
I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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Crazy General Going
I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
GRIMES

Instrument Pads Voice
I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
GRIMES

Music Stuck Thinking
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 prefer making videos to making music.
GRIMES

Making Music Video
I always wanted to be really experimental.
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Experimental Really Wanted
Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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Basically Consistency Impressionable
Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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Deliver Shiver Song

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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