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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

I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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Hard Performing Sick
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
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
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
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
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
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
I prefer making videos to making music.
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Making 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
I always wanted to be really experimental.
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Experimental Really Wanted
I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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Country Obsessed Stuff
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
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
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.
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Fashion Powerful Taken
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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Crazy Sound Stars

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