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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
British Columbia
Claire Elise Boucher
Claire Boucher
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Confidence
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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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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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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 listen to a lot of medieval music.
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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 always wanted to be really experimental.
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I can't censor myself it's really important for me to say how I feel.
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I prefer making videos to making music.
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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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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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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 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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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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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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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Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity.
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Usually when I make music, in my head I'm like 'this isn't Grimes, this is just some other project that you can release later, so there's no pressure and it doesn't matter and no-one's ever gonna hear it'.
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