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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

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
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
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’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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Country Obsessed Stuff
I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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Dark Winter Writing
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
Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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Made Most Music 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 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
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
Especially with music, people want confidence.
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Confidence People Want
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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Character Findings Whole
I always wanted to be really experimental.
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Experimental Really Wanted
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 want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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Fashion Grimes Want
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
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
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 think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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Music Stuck Thinking
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
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
From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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Age Creative Unhappy
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 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
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.
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Making Music Video
I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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Crazy General Going

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