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I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.

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
From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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Age Creative Unhappy
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 just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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Broken Care Heart
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 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
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
Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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Deliver Shiver Song
I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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Dark Winter Writing
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 prefer making videos to making music.
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Making Music Video
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
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
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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Jobs Needs People
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 always wanted to be really experimental.
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Experimental Really Wanted
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 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 think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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Music Stuck Thinking
If painters could be compared to filmmakers, Bosch is the Hype Williams of renaissance painters. With Bosch, there’s always a narrative that is very nonlinear – and that’s the essence of a good music video.
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Essence Hype Video
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’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
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
If I think about what other people are thinking when I’m making music, I just can’t do it. It’s too withheld – I need to go totally over the top, and then kind of clean it up a bit and make it more reasonable after the fact.
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Facts Need People Reasonable Thinking
Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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Made Most Music Video
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
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

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