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If you tell someone you're doing something innovative, they'll think you're doing something innovative.

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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
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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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Art gives me an outlet where I can be aggressive in a world where I usually can't be.
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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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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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 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'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.
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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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As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality.
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I always wanted to be really experimental.
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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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I don't own anything designer.
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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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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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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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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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