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If you tell someone you're doing something innovative, they'll think you're doing something innovative.
Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.
I'm not interested in making art unless I'm totally freaked out and worried people are going to hate 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.
If you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you're doing musically.
Whenever I'm making music I'm always waiting for the shivers to happen - that's an important thing for me.
I don't even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.
I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it's the only thing that I can really know, I guess.
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.
My favorite music is never the music that anyone else likes, and other people's favorite songs are always my least favorite.
The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.
I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
Mariah Carey is my favorite singer because her voice sounds utterly groundless. It's not even a human voice; it almost sounds mechanical.
When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do.
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.
I know texture is really important, but I think texture and stuff precedes songwriting a lot of the time these days.
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 have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there.
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.
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 obviously funny to be a meme, so I could be down with it in that regard, but it also belittles one's art.
Ugly girls generally don't become successful in music. And it sucks because it's a standard that just exists.
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.
Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn't mean it's not important or relevant.
I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
I'm tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
I need to be able to work for 20 or 30 hours in one go in complete darkness, alone with just the computer glow.
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.
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 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.
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.
Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity.
I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I'll black out the windows or something.
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.