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Grimes

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 17, 1988

By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself.

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I've seen Animal Collective live, and I suffered permanent hearing loss from that show!

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I've always been very intense about everything I do.

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I'm a very unhealthy person, and Montreal is very cold, and I'm usually sick when I'm there.

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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'm against spending money to record.

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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.

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I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.

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I can't censor myself; it's really important for me to say how I feel.

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If I went on 'American Idol,' I would definitely be kicked out immediately.

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My set can get really screamo and aggressive, or it can be ambient and Enya-esque.

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I need to be able to work for 20 or 30 hours in one go in complete darkness, alone with just the computer glow.

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I just can't perform well unless I'm wearing jeans.

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My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.

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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.

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I'm a super-introverted person.

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I don't even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.

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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 always wanted to be really experimental.

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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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