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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.
Grimes
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Grimes
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: March 17
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Claire Elise Boucher
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