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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
British Columbia
Claire Elise Boucher
Claire Boucher
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If I went on 'American Idol,' I would definitely be kicked out immediately.
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I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an action movie: There's this crazy omnipresent guy who can destroy you at any moment.
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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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The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.
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I approach music - and this sounds crazy - as though I'm Phil Spector, and I'm cranking out these pop stars and forcing them to do all this stuff - except they're all me. But I'm not, like, transgendered.
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Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.
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I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.
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Obviously, I like things that are cute and aggressive at the same time, but I didn't want it to just be mini-bangs and lip-syncing in a dress. I need to get away from that stuff.
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I want to say my life inspires my lyrics, but I also try to abstract them as much as possible because I don't want to refer to my life explicitly. I'm definitely really embarrassed by my lyrics.
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Lately I've been really into screaming a lot through delay [effects], having seven people on stage topless going crazy, stuff like that. Really in your face, but maybe more organic than choreographed dance moves.
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I listen to a lot of medieval music.
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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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I grew up with four brothers, and in the back of my head I feel pretty masculine. It's always funny when I hear recordings of my voice, because it's so deep when I hear it in my head.
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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 don't own anything designer.
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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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