Grimes

From an early age, I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.

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I'm against spending money to record.

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

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Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity.

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I've seen Animal Collective live, and I suffered permanent hearing loss from that show!

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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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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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I can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not.

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I was incredibly unpopular in high school but also extremely notorious.

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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 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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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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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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Quotes by Grimes