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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.

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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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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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I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.
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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 like being behind the camera because I can control perception and what people see.
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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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I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.
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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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I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.
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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 don't own anything designer.
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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 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 prefer making videos to making music.
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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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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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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 just can't perform well unless I'm wearing jeans.
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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself.
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I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it's dark.
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