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" I don't even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me. "
Grimes
Me
Shoes
Walk
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" 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. "
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Young
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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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" By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself. "
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" I can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not. "
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Early
Tell
" 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. "
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Caring
Me
Tired
" Most of my music videos were made for under $200. "
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Music Videos
Made
Music
" I listen to a lot of medieval music. "
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Music
Medieval
Lot
" 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. "
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Could
Funny
Down
" 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. "
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" I don't think I know anyone who has a steady job in Montreal. "
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Steady
Think
Who
" I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living. "
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Want
Compromise
Living
" I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general. "
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Crazy
Like
General
" Miami is just really fun whenever I go there. It's like this post-apocalyptic Barbie world: everything is pink, and there're palm trees everywhere. But then there are also all these people in crazy sunglasses, warehouses with sick parties where all the girls are covered in spikes and black leather. It's a very weird place. "
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Trees
Crazy
Fun
" 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. "
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You
Art
Easy
" 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. "
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People
Community
Live
" I was incredibly unpopular in high school but also extremely notorious. "
Grimes
School
Unpopular
High School
" It's interesting to be a front person who is controlling the majority of the sound. "
Grimes
Sound
Interesting
Controlling
" 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. "
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Talk
Play
You
" I'm against spending money to record. "
Grimes
Against
Spending Money
Spending
" If I went on 'American Idol,' I would definitely be kicked out immediately. "
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Idol
American
Would
" If I'm a bad mood, I can't go on stage and smile. "
Grimes
Go
Smile
Mood
" When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do. "
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Slow
Psychedelic
First
" I'm a super-introverted person. "
Grimes
Person
" I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues. "
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Sad
Talk
Environmental
" I need to be able to work for 20 or 30 hours in one go in complete darkness, alone with just the computer glow. "
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Work
Need
Alone
" I think my sound is post-Internet. "
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I Think
Sound
" If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship. "
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Now
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" I'm a very nervous, shy person. "
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Nervous
Shy Person
Very
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Make
Act