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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.

Grimes

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
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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Bigs Interest Video
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
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
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 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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Believe Humans Mind
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
Especially with music, people want confidence.
GRIMES

Confidence People Want
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

Fashion Powerful Taken
I don’t even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.
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Hate People Shoes
I always wanted to be really experimental.
GRIMES

Experimental Really Wanted
I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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Music Stuck Thinking
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 definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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Instrument Pads Voice
Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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Important Mean Philosophical

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