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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.
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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I just can't perform well unless I'm wearing jeans.
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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 feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.
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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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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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 can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not.
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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 don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.
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I think the internet is kind of redefining what it is to be a teenager. Because there's a lot of media that's aimed at teenagers that other people are getting into. But, conversely, pornography or stuff that's intended for adults is completely readily available to anyone, like teenagers.
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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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