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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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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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I like being behind the camera because I can control perception and what people see.
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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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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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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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 approach music - and this sounds crazy - as though I'm Phil Spector, and I'm cranking out these pop stars and forcing them to do all this stuff - except they're all me. But I'm not, like, transgendered.
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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.
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I listen to a lot of medieval music.
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I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.
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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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I don't think I know anyone who has a steady job in Montreal.
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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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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 just can't perform well unless I'm wearing jeans.
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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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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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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 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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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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