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Fashion 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.

Grimes

From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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Age Creative Unhappy
I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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Music Stuck Thinking
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
Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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Made Most Music Video
I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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Persons Sentimental
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
I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
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Bigs Interest Video
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
Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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Deliver Shiver Song
Especially with music, people want confidence.
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Confidence People Want
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 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
I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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Dark Winter Writing
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
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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Cameras Freak People
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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