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" 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

Myself

Quality

Challenge

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" 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

Love

Feel

" 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. "

" I'm not trained in music. "

Grimes

Trained

Music

" 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. "

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

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

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

Grimes

Friends

Population

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

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

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

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

Grimes

Say

Important

" Most of my music videos were made for under $200. "

" The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they're having a good time. "

Grimes

Good

Time

" The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety. "

" 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. "

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

Grimes

Crazy

General

" I think I have serious latent Catholic guilt issues. "

" 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. "

" I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest. "

" I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else. "

" Usually I perform with dancers. "

Grimes

Perform

Dancers

" I'm tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway. "

Grimes

Tired

Runway

" 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

Caring

Tired

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

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

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

" My favorite music is never the music that anyone else likes, and other people's favorite songs are always my least favorite. "