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" If you tell someone you're doing something innovative, they'll think you're doing something innovative. "
Grimes
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" 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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" I like to aestheticize every possible thing that can be aestheticized. "
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" If I'm a bad mood, I can't go on stage and smile. "
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" I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living. "
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" I'm against spending money to record. "
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" 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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" I think my sound is post-Internet. "
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" The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety. "
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" I can't censor myself; it's really important for me to say how I feel. "
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" It's interesting to be a front person who is controlling the majority of the sound. "
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" My set can get really screamo and aggressive, or it can be ambient and Enya-esque. "
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" 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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" My dream job would be sitting in a room, cranking out hits for Rihanna. "
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" You want people to hate you. If you're just making people happy, you're like Mumford & Sons. "
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You
Hate
" 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. "
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Culture
City
America
" I like creating beauty out of scary things. "
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Like
" I was incredibly unpopular in high school but also extremely notorious. "
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School
Unpopular
High School
" I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it's the only thing that I can really know, I guess. "
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Mind
Know
" I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it. "
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" I'm not good at being, like, a sexy girl. "
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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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" If you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you're doing musically. "
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" Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity. "
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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. "
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" I'm tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway. "
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" 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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