I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
GRIMESEspecially with music, people want confidence.
More Grimes Quotes
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I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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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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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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I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it’s the only thing that I can really know, I guess.
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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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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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 just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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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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I prefer making videos to making music.
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I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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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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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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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