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" I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I'm on tour, and it's just hard. "
Grimes
Just
Like
Performing
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" I think my sound is post-Internet. "
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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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" Usually I perform with dancers. "
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" I think if you're good at art, you'll be good at most types of art. "
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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 from Bali and Rihanna.' There are still so many combinations that haven't been done yet. "
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Say
Done
" I don't even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me. "
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Shoes
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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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Myself
" I always wanted to be really experimental. "
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Really
Experimental
" You want people to hate you. If you're just making people happy, you're like Mumford & Sons. "
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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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" From an early age, I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative. "
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Early
Unhappy
" 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
People
Community
Live
" I'm against spending money to record. "
Grimes
Against
Spending Money
Spending
" 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. "
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Something
Someone
Just
" I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else. "
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Make
Anything
Way
" I want to make an a cappella record to release for free. "
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Free
Cappella
Make
" Basically, I'm really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do. "
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Anything
Sense
Consistency
" Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity. "
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Positive
Creativity
Your
" I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general. "
Grimes
Just
Japanese
Stuff
" 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
" I don't own anything designer. "
Grimes
Anything
Designer
Own
" 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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Hate
Not Interested
People
" 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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Wish
Having
Band
" I'm a very unhealthy person, and Montreal is very cold, and I'm usually sick when I'm there. "
Grimes
Person
Cold
Montreal
" 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. "
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Music
Experience
Get
" The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you. "
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Present
Yourself
You
" Most of my music videos were made for under $200. "
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Music Videos
Made
Music
" 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
" If I'm a bad mood, I can't go on stage and smile. "
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Go
Smile
Mood