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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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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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Miami is just really fun whenever I go there. It's like this post-apocalyptic Barbie world: everything is pink, and there're palm trees everywhere. But then there are also all these people in crazy sunglasses, warehouses with sick parties where all the girls are covered in spikes and black leather. It's a very weird place.
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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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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I just can't perform well unless I'm wearing jeans.
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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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By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself.
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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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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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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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If I went on 'American Idol,' I would definitely be kicked out immediately.
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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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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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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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Art gives me an outlet where I can be aggressive in a world where I usually can't be.
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I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.
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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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I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.
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