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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

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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Character Findings Whole
I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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Dark Winter Writing
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
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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Issues People Teenagers
I always wanted to be really experimental.
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Experimental Really Wanted
Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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Made Most Music Video
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
I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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Country Obsessed Stuff
If painters could be compared to filmmakers, Bosch is the Hype Williams of renaissance painters. With Bosch, there’s always a narrative that is very nonlinear – and that’s the essence of a good music video.
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Essence Hype Video
I prefer making videos to making music.
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Making Music Video
I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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Fashion Grimes Want
Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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Basically Consistency Impressionable
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
Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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Girl Successful Ugly
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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Believe Humans Mind
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

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