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I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.
Grimes
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Grimes
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: March 17
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Vancouver
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Claire Elise Boucher
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If I think about what other people are thinking when I'm making music, I just can't do it. It's too withheld - I need to go totally over the top, and then kind of clean it up a bit and make it more reasonable after the fact.
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I like creating beauty out of scary things.
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It's important for people not to feel like doing things that are immature, stuff you have to try out when you're a teenager, is bad, per se. Demonizing it is one of the reasons it becomes such an issue.
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I think you can hear, when you listen to someone's music, whether or not they're enjoying making it - it's so great to hear music where you can tell the person making it was just having a blast. That's really important to me as far as my process goes. That's probably why my music ends up being so poppy!
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If you tell someone you're doing something innovative, they'll think you're doing something innovative.
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My great fear is that I'm the ultimate shallow person. I think about this kind of thing a lot, and about this phenomenon in our culture where people identify themselves with their interests. I've been trying not to think about it too much. It used to really upset me when people called me witch house.
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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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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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I think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played with no monitors standing in front of guitar amps in a shitty, smoky warehouse where people were screaming and wasted, knocking over my gear. So shows after that seem pretty easy!
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I'm so sick of my own music that I don't know if I can edit another video, which involves hundreds of hours of listening to your own song again and again and again. It becomes so grating after a while.
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It takes me probably about four hours to get into the groove [with making music]. And it's really important for me to not break the groove.
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Art gives me an outlet where I can be aggressive in a world where I usually can't be.
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I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.
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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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I don't own anything designer.
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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 have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.
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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 want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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If I went on 'American Idol,' I would definitely be kicked out immediately.
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