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Art gives me an outlet where I can be aggressive in a world where I usually can't be.
Grimes
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Grimes
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: March 17
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Claire Elise Boucher
Claire Boucher
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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!
Grimes
The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.
Grimes
It takes me probably about four hours to get into the groove [with making music]. And it's really important for me to not break the groove.
Grimes
I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it's dark.
Grimes
I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.
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I like creating beauty out of scary things.
Grimes
I don't think I know anyone who has a steady job in Montreal.
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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 can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not.
Grimes
I can't censor myself it's really important for me to say how I feel.
Grimes
I don't even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.
Grimes
Ugly girls generally don't become successful in music. And it sucks because it's a standard that just exists.
Grimes
I listen to a lot of medieval music.
Grimes
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.
Grimes
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.
Grimes
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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Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity.
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I don't own anything designer.
Grimes
From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.
Grimes
I want to say my life inspires my lyrics, but I also try to abstract them as much as possible because I don't want to refer to my life explicitly. I'm definitely really embarrassed by my lyrics.
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