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

Grimes

I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
GRIMES

Persons Sentimental
I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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Music Stuck Thinking
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 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
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
I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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Dark Winter Writing
I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I’ll black out the windows or something.
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Black Night Window
Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
GRIMES

Girl Successful Ugly
Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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Basically Consistency Impressionable
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.
GRIMES

Essence Hype Video
Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
GRIMES

Deliver Shiver Song
Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.
GRIMES

Cameras Freak People
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 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
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.
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Cities Country People Vancouver

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