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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.

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 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
Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.
GRIMES

Cameras Freak People
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.
GRIMES

Jobs Needs People
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 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
Lately I’ve been really into screaming a lot through delay [effects], having seven people on stage topless going crazy, stuff like that. Really in your face, but maybe more organic than choreographed dance moves.
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Crazy Moving People
Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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Basically Consistency Impressionable
I prefer making videos to making music.
GRIMES

Making Music Video
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.
GRIMES

Facts Need People Reasonable Thinking
I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
GRIMES

Dark Winter Writing
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.
GRIMES

Couple Female Guy
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 always wanted to be really experimental.
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Experimental Really Wanted
I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
GRIMES

Persons Sentimental
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

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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