Grimes

I like creating beauty out of scary things.

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I always wanted to be really experimental.

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I'm not good at being, like, a sexy girl.

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I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do.

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I think I have serious latent Catholic guilt issues.

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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.

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I don't think I know anyone who has a steady job in Montreal.

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I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.

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I was incredibly unpopular in high school but also extremely notorious.

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My dream job would be sitting in a room, cranking out hits for Rihanna.

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My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.

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I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there.

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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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There aren't many other labels who I can say are that successful, and can give me as much as 4AD gives me,…

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There's definitely a solitary aspect to not having a band, and there are times when I wish that I did.

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I start a lot of songs and throw them out because the energy is not right. It's almost like the file becomes…

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I think my music's kind of cold, but I don't know if it's related to the weather. It might be because it's…

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When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do.

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I'm not interested in making art unless I'm totally freaked out and worried people are going to hate it.

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You don't just have to be influenced by rock, or goth, anymore. It's okay to say, 'My influences are Tin Pan music…

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I'm so sick of my own music that I don't know if I can edit another video, which involves hundreds of hours…

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Lately I've been really into screaming a lot through delay [effects], having seven people on stage topless going crazy, stuff like that.…

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My great fear is that I'm the ultimate shallow person. I think about this kind of thing a lot, and about this…

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Lets make it known that we don't want to give away our beautiful homeland to corporate interests. It is our right as…

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One thing with Montreal is it's so cold and everyone's so poor and beer's so cheap: if you go to a show…

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I'm actually not a particularly negative person, but I feel like most things are better when they're not actualized. The motivation that…

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If I think about what other people are thinking when I'm making music, I just can't do it. It's too withheld -…

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I can't censor myself; it's really important for me to say how I feel.

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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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I like to aestheticize every possible thing that can be aestheticized.

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When I'm making something I need it to be catchy - I need it to hit the sweet spot.

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I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I'm on tour, and it's just hard.

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From an early age, I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.

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I'm a very unhealthy person, and Montreal is very cold, and I'm usually sick when I'm there.

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Basically, I'm really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.

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I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it.

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The last thing I think about when I'm making music is its reception.

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I just can't perform well unless I'm wearing jeans.

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I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.

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I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.

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