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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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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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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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 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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I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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I don't think I know anyone who has a steady job in Montreal.
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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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The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.
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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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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 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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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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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 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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I like being behind the camera because I can control perception and what people see.
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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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If you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you're doing musically.
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I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.
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I always wanted to be really experimental.
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I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.
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