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Especially with music, people want confidence.

Grimes

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
Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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Deliver Shiver Song
I feel like gender lines are changing. A couple of years ago, it wasn’t nearly as OK for guys to like girly-sounding music. But all of a sudden a lot of my guys friends who would like have been really disdainful of female singers are way more accepting.
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Couple Female Guy
I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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Crazy General Going
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.
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Four Hours Important
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.
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Artist Crazy Moving
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
I always wanted to be really experimental.
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Experimental Really Wanted
Especially with music, people want confidence.
GRIMES

Confidence People Want
Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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Basically Consistency Impressionable
I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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Fashion Grimes Want
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
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
I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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Dark Winter Writing
I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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Music Stuck Thinking

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