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I don't think I know anyone who has a steady job in Montreal.

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Grimes
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: March 17
Blogger
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Musician
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Claire Elise Boucher
Claire Boucher
Montreal
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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'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 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 can't censor myself it's really important for me to say how I feel.
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Art gives me an outlet where I can be aggressive in a world where I usually can't be.
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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 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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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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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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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 can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not.
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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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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.
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