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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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
Claire 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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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.
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I usually like to get people in because I don't have a band or anything. In cities where I have friends, I try to get them to come out and dance for me.
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I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.
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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 a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there.
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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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When an artist, or whomever, moves from their scene to the bigger pond, it starts getting crazy, because all of a sudden people don't respect you, and you have to start being a lot more aggressive than you would normally be.
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I would never go to a studio. I need my space, you know what I mean? I need to be able to chain smoke and pace about, cry and like... spit. Just make noise, make a huge mess. I also feel like if I was concerned for the cost of the studio - like, 'this is costing 40 dollars an hour' - I wouldn't be able to work.
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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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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'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.
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I can't censor myself it's really important for me to say how I feel.
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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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Ugly girls generally don't become successful in music. And it sucks because it's a standard that just exists.
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I just can't perform well unless I'm wearing jeans.
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If I went on 'American Idol,' I would definitely be kicked out immediately.
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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.
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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 like being behind the camera because I can control perception and what people see.
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