If you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you're doing musically. Grimes More Quotes by Grimes More Quotes From Grimes I can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not. Grimes toss painting ifs Basically, I'm really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do. Grimes impressionable consistency I'm tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway. Grimes size fit tired Most of my music videos were made for under $200. Grimes video made 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. Grimes block artist people You don't just have to be influenced by rock, or goth, anymore. It's okay to say, 'My influences are Tin Pan music from Bali and Rihanna.' There are still so many combinations that haven't been done yet. Grimes tin rocks done I always wanted to be really experimental. Grimes wanted I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an action movie: There's this crazy omnipresent guy who can destroy you at any moment. Grimes childhood crazy school 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. Grimes portraits the-end-of-the-day humanity I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken. Grimes care broken heart If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship. Grimes icons musician people I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I'll black out the windows or something. Grimes black night window I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I'm on tour, and it's just hard. Grimes performing hard sick There aren't many other labels who I can say are that successful, and can give me as much as 4AD gives me, and still have such a great roster. Grimes labels successful giving I know texture is really important, but I think texture and stuff precedes songwriting a lot of the time these days. Grimes texture important thinking I think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played with no monitors standing in front of guitar amps in a shitty, smoky warehouse where people were screaming and wasted, knocking over my gear. So shows after that seem pretty easy! Grimes guitar successful thinking I've never lived outside of Canada, so I've been really cold my entire life. Most of my memories are coloured by the fact that I was really cold, just... all the time! Grimes canada memories facts I think my music's kind of cold, but I don't know if it's related to the weather. It might be because it's always grey [in Montreal], it's very depressing. Grimes depressing weather thinking I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it's dark. Grimes dark writing winter I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there. Grimes population vancouver grew-up
