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" The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human beings to do. Once you put in the effort, the learning curve is very fast. "

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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. "

Grimes

Caring

Tired

" I don't own anything designer. "

" I'm against spending money to record. "

" 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 believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it's the only thing that I can really know, I guess. "

" I'm a super-introverted person. "

Grimes

Person

" I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I'm on tour, and it's just hard. "

Grimes

Just

Performing

" I just can't perform well unless I'm wearing jeans. "

" I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act. "

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

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

Grimes

Good

Time

" 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. "

" There are a lot of musicians I've met on Twitter where it was like, 'Hey, I like your music' - and then I ended up meeting them and it turned into a friendship. "

" 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. "

" I start a lot of songs and throw them out because the energy is not right. It's almost like the file becomes cursed. I have to delete it. "

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

" The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you. "

" If you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you're doing musically. "

" I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do. "

" 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. "

" I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it. "

" I don't even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me. "

Grimes

Shoes

Walk

" I think my sound is post-Internet. "

" 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 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 a very nervous, shy person. "

" 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. "

" My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music. "

" It's interesting to be a front person who is controlling the majority of the sound. "