I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general. Grimes More Quotes by Grimes More Quotes From Grimes 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'. Grimes releasepressurematter Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers. Grimes shiversong If I'll be sexualized, it wouldn't be because I was wearing sexy clothes, because I look like a baby. But music is an inherently sexual thing. If something sexual is going to be expressed, it's going to be in my music. Grimes sexymusic-isbaby I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it. Grimes sentimentalpersons Even though I really admire what Beyonce does, and she's probably got one of the best live shows in the world - honestly! - that's so not my style. Grimes styledoeworld Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird. Grimes freakcameraspeople I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else. Grimes intensedesireway I love humanity, I love the way people look Grimes humanitypeoplelooks If painters could be compared to filmmakers, Bosch is the Hype Williams of renaissance painters. With Bosch, there's always a narrative that is very nonlinear - and that's the essence of a good music video. Grimes hypevideoessence I don't have any money to hire actors. I just need to get people who are going to do a good job being themselves. Grimes jobspeopleneeds I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act. Grimes sci-fifashionwant Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity. Grimes stimulationcreativityterm Fashion can be a really powerful tool, but it's also a place where you can be totally humiliated and have your power taken from you. Grimes fashionpowerfultaken I feel like gender lines are changing. A couple of years ago, it wasn't nearly as OK for guys to like girly-sounding music. But all of a sudden a lot of my guys friends who would like have been really disdainful of female singers are way more accepting. Grimes femaleguycouple 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. Grimes qualitychallengestrying 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 factspeoplethinking I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues. Grimes environmentalissuesrights 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. Grimes vancouvercitiesamerica I'm so sick of my own music that I don't know if I can edit another video, which involves hundreds of hours of listening to your own song again and again and again. It becomes so grating after a while. Grimes sicklisteningsong One thing with Montreal is it's so cold and everyone's so poor and beer's so cheap: if you go to a show you have to brave the weather to get there. So you show up and everyone's soaking wet - there's a sense of 'I trekked through three feet of snow to get here!' I think there's a kind of camaraderie that arises out of that, that's important to me as well. Grimes beerweatherthinking
