I’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
GRIMESIn 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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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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 always wanted to be really experimental.
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I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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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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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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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I prefer making videos to making music.
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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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Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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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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