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Usually when I make music, in my head I'm like 'this isn't Grimes, this is just some other project that you can release later, so there's no pressure and it doesn't matter and no-one's ever gonna hear it'.
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Grimes
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: March 17
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Claire Elise Boucher
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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.
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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 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 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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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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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 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 have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.
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I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.
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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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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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I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I'm on tour, and it's just hard.
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I grew up with four brothers, and in the back of my head I feel pretty masculine. It's always funny when I hear recordings of my voice, because it's so deep when I hear it in my head.
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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 just can't perform well unless I'm wearing jeans.
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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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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 listen to a lot of medieval music.
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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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Ugly girls generally don't become successful in music. And it sucks because it's a standard that just exists.
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