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I can't censor myself it's really important for me to say how I feel.

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Grimes
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: March 17
Blogger
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Claire Elise Boucher
Claire Boucher
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I don't own anything designer.
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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 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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By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself.
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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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 creating beauty out of scary things.
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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 prefer making videos to making music.
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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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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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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 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 have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there.
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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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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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I like being behind the camera because I can control perception and what people see.
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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 just can't perform well unless I'm wearing jeans.
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