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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

I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
GRIMES

Hard Performing Sick
I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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Anything Desire Intense Way
I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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Music Stuck Thinking
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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Fit Runway Size Tired
Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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Made Most Music Video
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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Artist Crazy Moving
Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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Basically Consistency Impressionable
I prefer making videos to making music.
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Making Music Video
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
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
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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Four Hours Important
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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Artist Block People
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 always wanted to be really experimental.
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Experimental Really Wanted
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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Aggressive Bangs Cute Dresses
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

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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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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