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I just can't perform well unless I'm wearing jeans.
Grimes
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Grimes
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: March 17
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Claire Elise Boucher
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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'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.
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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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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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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 have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.
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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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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 like creating beauty out of scary things.
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I like being behind the camera because I can control perception and what people see.
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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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I think a lot of music that's really innovative is not even considered because it was made by people who had a sexual image. And people assume that it's a commodified thing, so it can't be indie.
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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 prefer making videos to making music.
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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 think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played with no monitors standing in front of guitar amps in a shitty, smoky warehouse where people were screaming and wasted, knocking over my gear. So shows after that seem pretty easy!
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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.
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In America there's lot of cool cities, but in Canada there's, like, well, Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax may be cool, but they're so expensive. Montreal is the only city that's affordable but also has buses and culture.
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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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