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You want people to hate you. If you're just making people happy, you're like Mumford & Sons.
I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it.
I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.
By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself.
I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
There's definitely a solitary aspect to not having a band, and there are times when I wish that I did.
I don't even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.
Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity.
If you tell someone you're doing something innovative, they'll think you're doing something innovative.
I'm not interested in making art unless I'm totally freaked out and worried people are going to hate it.
Whenever I'm making music I'm always waiting for the shivers to happen - that's an important thing for me.
I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it's the only thing that I can really know, I guess.
If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship.
When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do.
Ugly girls generally don't become successful in music. And it sucks because it's a standard that just exists.
I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I'll black out the windows or something.
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 get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there.
I need to be able to work for 20 or 30 hours in one go in complete darkness, alone with just the computer glow.
Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn't mean it's not important or relevant.
I'm tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
If you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you're doing musically.
Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.
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.
I know texture is really important, but I think texture and stuff precedes songwriting a lot of the time these days.
The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.
My favorite music is never the music that anyone else likes, and other people's favorite songs are always my least favorite.
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.
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.
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 start a lot of songs and throw them out because the energy is not right. It's almost like the file becomes cursed. I have to delete it.
Mariah Carey is my favorite singer because her voice sounds utterly groundless. It's not even a human voice; it almost sounds mechanical.
It takes me probably about four hours to get into the groove [with making music]. And it's really important for me to not break the groove.
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.
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 love pop music, but I also love noise music, IDM - anything really, I get something out of most kinds of music. I just need to enjoy the process.
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.
You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a missing link in the music scene.
I don't know if I would ever have costume changes - usually I just end up taking off my shoes, I get so sweaty, and... I just need to be comfortable.
I find it really hard to throw myself into something artistically where I'm making up a whole character and finding something for that character to do.
I usually like to get people in because I don't have a band or anything. In cities where I have friends, I try to get them to come out and dance for me.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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 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 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.