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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.

Grimes

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

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

Hard Performing Sick
Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
GRIMES

Deliver Shiver Song
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.
GRIMES

Crazy Moving People
The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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Good Looks People Times
I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
GRIMES

Dark Winter Writing
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
I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
GRIMES

Instrument Pads Voice
Especially with music, people want confidence.
GRIMES

Confidence People Want
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.
GRIMES

Artist Crazy Moving
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
Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
GRIMES

Girl Successful Ugly
I approach music – and this sounds crazy – as though I’m Phil Spector, and I’m cranking out these pop stars and forcing them to do all this stuff – except they’re all me. But I’m not, like, transgendered.
GRIMES

Crazy Sound Stars
I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
GRIMES

Fashion Grimes Want
I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
GRIMES

Broken Care Heart

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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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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