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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.

Grimes

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 always wanted to be really experimental.
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Experimental Really Wanted
I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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Music Stuck Thinking
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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Assuming People Thinking
Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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Made Most Music Video
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
I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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Broken Care Heart
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
Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
GRIMES

Girl Successful Ugly
Especially with music, people want confidence.
GRIMES

Confidence People Want
The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
GRIMES

Good Looks People Times
From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
GRIMES

Age Creative Unhappy
Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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Deliver Shiver Song
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 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
Lately I’ve been really into screaming a lot through delay [effects], having seven people on stage topless going crazy, stuff like that. Really in your face, but maybe more organic than choreographed dance moves.
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Crazy Moving People

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