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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. -- Grimes
If you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you're doing musically. -- Grimes
You don't just have to be influenced by rock, or goth, anymore. It's okay to say, 'My influences are Tin Pan music from Bali and Rihanna.' There are still so many combinations that haven't been done yet. -- Grimes
My favorite music is never the music that anyone else likes, and other people's favorite songs are always my least favorite. -- Grimes
Most of my music videos were made for under $200. -- Grimes
I prefer making videos to making music. -- Grimes
Even though I really admire what Beyonce does, and she's probably got one of the best live shows in the world - honestly! - that's so not my style. -- Grimes
As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality. -- Grimes
I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else. -- Grimes
I think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played with no monitors standing in front of guitar amps in a shitty, smoky warehouse where people were screaming and wasted, knocking over my gear. So shows after that seem pretty easy! -- Grimes
I've never lived outside of Canada, so I've been really cold my entire life. Most of my memories are coloured by the fact that I was really cold, just ... all the time! -- Grimes
I'm tired of being considered vapid for liking pop music or caring about fashion as if these things inherently lack substance or as if the things I enjoy somehow make me a lesser person. -- Grimes
You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a missing link in the music scene. -- Grimes
I'm tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway. -- Grimes
I start a lot of songs and throw them out because the energy is not right. It's almost like the file becomes cursed. I have to delete it. -- Grimes
It's interesting to be a front person who is controlling the majority of the sound. -- Grimes
There's definitely a solitary aspect to not having a band, and there are times when I wish that I did. -- Grimes
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
Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity. -- Grimes
Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn't mean it's not important or relevant. -- Grimes
My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music. -- Grimes
I listen to a lot of medieval music. -- Grimes
Lets make it known that we don't want to give away our beautiful homeland to corporate interests. It is our right as Canadians to be part of these decisions. The only thing standing between this world and environmental catastrophe is us -- Grimes
You want people to hate you. If you're just making people happy, you're like Mumford & Sons. -- Grimes
Art gives me an outlet where I can be aggressive in a world where I usually can't be. -- Grimes
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 always grey [in Montreal], it's very depressing. -- Grimes
I've always been very intense about everything I do. -- Grimes
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
I'm a very nervous, shy person. -- Grimes
I want to say my life inspires my lyrics, but I also try to abstract them as much as possible because I don't want to refer to my life explicitly. I'm definitely really embarrassed by my lyrics. -- Grimes
I'm actually not a particularly negative person, but I feel like most things are better when they're not actualized. The motivation that comes from wanting something is so much more driving of people than actually getting it. -- Grimes
I've always been such a nerd. -- Grimes
I'm not trained in music. -- Grimes
The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they're having a good time. -- Grimes
The groove can go for like three days - once I'm in it it will just keep going until I'm totally exhausted. But that's how I like to work, I like to be away from everyone and just get in the zone, and stay there for as long as I can keep it there. -- Grimes
I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa. -- Grimes
There are a lot of musicians I've met on Twitter where it was like, 'Hey, I like your music' - and then I ended up meeting them and it turned into a friendship. -- Grimes
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. -- Grimes
I think Canadians make a lot of music because we're stuck inside all the time. -- Grimes
I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I'll black out the windows or something. -- Grimes
I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken. -- Grimes
My set can get really screamo and aggressive, or it can be ambient and Enya-esque. -- Grimes
Basically, I'm really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do. -- Grimes
I can't censor myself; it's really important for me to say how I feel. -- Grimes
I'm not good at being, like, a sexy girl. -- Grimes
I think the internet is kind of redefining what it is to be a teenager. Because there's a lot of media that's aimed at teenagers that other people are getting into. But, conversely, pornography or stuff that's intended for adults is completely readily available to anyone, like teenagers. -- Grimes
I grew up going to punk shows, that kind of thing - I don't wanna make pop punk! - but I like the idea of people going totally crazy and it being really intimate, loud and super-aggressive, but combining that with pop music. -- Grimes
Ugly girls generally don't become successful in music. And it sucks because it's a standard that just exists. -- Grimes
When an artist, or whomever, moves from their scene to the bigger pond, it starts getting crazy, because all of a sudden people don't respect you, and you have to start being a lot more aggressive than you would normally be. -- Grimes
My dream job would be sitting in a room, cranking out hits for Rihanna. -- Grimes
I love pop music, but I also love noise music, IDM - anything really, I get something out of most kinds of music. I just need to enjoy the process. -- Grimes
I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it's the only thing that I can really know, I guess. -- Grimes
If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship. -- Grimes
I've seen Animal Collective live, and I suffered permanent hearing loss from that show! -- Grimes
I don't own anything designer. -- Grimes
From an early age, I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative. -- Grimes
I want to make an a cappella record to release for free. -- Grimes
My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It's a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district. -- Grimes
Whenever I'm making music I'm always waiting for the shivers to happen - that's an important thing for me. -- Grimes
By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself. -- Grimes
If you tell someone you're doing something innovative, they'll think you're doing something innovative. -- Grimes
Music is a religion to me and my friends. -- Grimes
When I'm making something I need it to be catchy - I need it to hit the sweet spot. -- Grimes
I went through my adolescence having this revelatory experience - I can have any music I want, and I can get it immediately. For me and for a lot of people I know, there's this musical eclecticism that happened. -- Grimes
I'm against spending money to record. -- Grimes
It's kind of like I'm Phil Spector, and I'm forcing a young girl to make pop music and perform exhaustively. Except, instead of it being someone else, that girl is also me. -- Grimes
When I'm making a song that's very Grimes, it just feels very insular and it feels weird to have someone else do something on it. -- Grimes
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. -- Grimes
The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human beings to do. Once you put in the effort, the learning curve is very fast. -- Grimes
I think my sound is post-Internet. -- Grimes
I think I have serious latent Catholic guilt issues. -- Grimes
The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety. -- Grimes
I like to aestheticize every possible thing that can be aestheticized. -- Grimes
Usually I perform with dancers. -- Grimes
There aren't many other labels who I can say are that successful, and can give me as much as 4AD gives me, and still have such a great roster. -- Grimes
The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you. -- Grimes
I'm a very unhealthy person, and Montreal is very cold, and I'm usually sick when I'm there. -- Grimes
I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I'm on tour, and it's just hard. -- Grimes
I don't know if I would ever have costume changes - usually I just end up taking off my shoes, I get so sweaty, and ... I just need to be comfortable. -- Grimes
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. -- Grimes
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. -- Grimes
I like creating beauty out of scary things. -- Grimes
I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there. -- Grimes
I don't even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me. -- 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. -- Grimes
When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do. -- Grimes
There used to be a lot of industry in Montreal, and now there's not, so it's really easy to get huge, empty spaces where you can practice and make music or make art for very, very cheap. -- Grimes
It's really hard to be on stage and packing your gear when people who just saw you play are in the room, because they all just want to talk to you. -- Grimes
I cry really easily. If I see a butterfly, I'll practically burst into tears. So it's really hard for me to yell at people, because I'll feel so guilty about it. But if I don't, then they don't take me seriously and it's this endless cycle. -- Grimes
It's obviously funny to be a meme, so I could be down with it in that regard, but it also belittles one's art. -- Grimes
I'm so sick of my own music that I don't know if I can edit another video, which involves hundreds of hours of listening to your own song again and again and again. It becomes so grating after a while. -- Grimes
I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues. -- Grimes
I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it's dark. -- Grimes
I truly love 'Gangnam Style.' I guess it's a meme. I feel like it's one of the few times where the meme and the quality combines nicely. -- Grimes
I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general. -- Grimes
I know texture is really important, but I think texture and stuff precedes songwriting a lot of the time these days. -- Grimes
Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers. -- Grimes
I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything. -- 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. -- Grimes
I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an action movie: There's this crazy omnipresent guy who can destroy you at any moment. -- Grimes
If I'm a bad mood, I can't go on stage and smile. -- Grimes
The last thing I think about when I'm making music is its reception. -- Grimes
I need to be able to work for 20 or 30 hours in one go in complete darkness, alone with just the computer glow. -- Grimes
I just can't perform well unless I'm wearing jeans. -- Grimes
I usually like to get people in because I don't have a band or anything. In cities where I have friends, I try to get them to come out and dance for me. -- Grimes
I always wanted to be really experimental. -- Grimes
I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living. -- Grimes
I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act. -- Grimes
Mariah Carey is my favorite singer because her voice sounds utterly groundless. It's not even a human voice; it almost sounds mechanical. -- Grimes
Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird. -- Grimes
Especially with music, people want confidence. -- Grimes
I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do. -- Grimes
I'm not interested in making art unless I'm totally freaked out and worried people are going to hate it. -- Grimes
Usually when I make music, in my head I'm like 'this isn't Grimes, this is just some other project that you can release later, so there's no pressure and it doesn't matter and no-one's ever gonna hear it'. -- Grimes
I was incredibly unpopular in high school but also extremely notorious. -- Grimes
I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general. -- Grimes
I'm a super-introverted person. -- Grimes
I don't think I know anyone who has a steady job in Montreal. -- Grimes
I can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not. -- Grimes
If I went on 'American Idol,' I would definitely be kicked out immediately. -- Grimes
I think if you're good at art, you'll be good at most types of art. -- Grimes
I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it. -- Grimes
I love humanity, I love the way people look -- Grimes