Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
GRIMESFashion can be a really powerful tool, but it’s also a place where you can be totally humiliated and have your power taken from you.
More Grimes Quotes
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Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.
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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.
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Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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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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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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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I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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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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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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I don’t even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.
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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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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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I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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