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" Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity. "
Grimes
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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've seen Animal Collective live, and I suffered permanent hearing loss from that show! "
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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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" Music is a religion to me and my friends. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest. "
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" 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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" I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there. "
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" 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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" 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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" I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I'm on tour, and it's just hard. "
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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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" I'm a super-introverted person. "
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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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" I think if you're good at art, you'll be good at most types of art. "
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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 have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else. "
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" I just can't perform well unless I'm wearing jeans. "
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" The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you. "
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" If I went on 'American Idol,' I would definitely be kicked out immediately. "
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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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" I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it. "
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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. "
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" I'm not good at being, like, a sexy girl. "
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" 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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" I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general. "
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" I don't think I know anyone who has a steady job in Montreal. "
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