Grimes
There are a lot of musicians I've met on Twitter where it was like, 'Hey, I like your music' - and then I ended up meeting them and it turned into a friendship.Collection: Friendship
I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.Collection: Environmental
The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human beings to do. Once you put in the effort, the learning curve is very fast.Collection: Learning
If I'm a bad mood, I can't go on stage and smile.Collection: Smile
I'm tired of being considered vapid for liking pop music or caring about fashion as if these things inherently lack substance or as if the things I enjoy somehow make me a lesser person.Collection: Music
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.Collection: Cool
I've seen Animal Collective live, and I suffered permanent hearing loss from that show!
I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it's the only thing that I can really know, I guess.
I like to aestheticize every possible thing that can be aestheticized.
I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.
Music is a religion to me and my friends.
I'm not good at being, like, a sexy girl.
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.
I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
Basically, I'm really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
It's obviously funny to be a meme, so I could be down with it in that regard, but it also belittles one's art.
I can't censor myself; it's really important for me to say how I feel.
I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do.
From an early age, I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.
I just can't perform well unless I'm wearing jeans.
By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself.
If I went on 'American Idol,' I would definitely be kicked out immediately.
It's really hard to be on stage and packing your gear when people who just saw you play are in the room, because they all just want to talk to you.
I truly love 'Gangnam Style.' I guess it's a meme. I feel like it's one of the few times where the meme and the quality combines nicely.
I'm a very nervous, shy person.
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.
I was incredibly unpopular in high school but also extremely notorious.
I'm against spending money to record.
The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they're having a good time.
Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
I'm a super-introverted person.
If you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you're doing musically.
I'm not trained in music.
I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.
I went through my adolescence having this revelatory experience - I can have any music I want, and I can get it immediately. For me and for a lot of people I know, there's this musical eclecticism that happened.
I don't even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.
I always wanted to be really experimental.
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.
When I'm making a song that's very Grimes, it just feels very insular and it feels weird to have someone else do something on it.
I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.
I'm tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there.
Usually I perform with dancers.
I've always been very intense about everything I do.
I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.
My favorite music is never the music that anyone else likes, and other people's favorite songs are always my least favorite.
My dream job would be sitting in a room, cranking out hits for Rihanna.
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.
It's interesting to be a front person who is controlling the majority of the sound.