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• 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.

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  Crazy, School, Childhood

  "Grimes: 'Genesis'". Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. August 27, 2012.

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• I approach music - and this sounds crazy - as though I'm Phil Spector, and I'm cranking out these pop stars and forcing them to do all this stuff - except they're all me. But I'm not, like, transgendered.

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  Stars, Crazy, Sound

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. February 16, 2012.

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• I don't own anything designer.

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  Designer

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• 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.

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  Character, Findings, Whole

  "Grimes: 'Genesis'". Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. August 27, 2012.

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• When an artist, or whomever, moves from their scene to the bigger pond, it starts getting crazy, because all of a sudden people don't respect you, and you have to start being a lot more aggressive than you would normally be.

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  Crazy, Moving, Artist

  "Tavi Gevinson". Interview with Grimes, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 11, 2014.

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• I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it's dark.

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  Writing, Dark, Winter

  "Always Waiting For The Shivers To Happen: Grimes Interviewed". Interview with Angus Finlayson, thequietus.com. May 25, 2012.

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• I love humanity, I love the way people look

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  People, Humanity, Looks

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• I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it.

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  Sentimental, Persons

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• I have a really weird relationship with myself where I'll say, "Do it, do it!" and then, "I don't want to do it anymore, I hate photo shoots, I'm so tired of this!" Or, "I wrote a song, and you're gonna sing it!" then, "I can't hit the note." I want to be a behind-the-scenes producer. I really hate being in front of people. But I'm also obsessed with becoming a pop star.

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  Song, Hate, Tired

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not.

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  Toss, Painting, Ifs

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• I listen to a lot of medieval music.

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  Medieval

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• If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship.

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  Icons, People, Musician

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• I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.

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  Video, Bigs, Interest

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• I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there.

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  Population, Vancouver, Grew Up

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Missing, Links

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• I know texture is really important, but I think texture and stuff precedes songwriting a lot of the time these days.

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  Thinking, Important, Texture

  "Always Waiting For The Shivers To Happen: Grimes Interviewed". Interview with Angus Finlayson, thequietus.com. May 25, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Cities, America, Vancouver

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• I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.

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  Voice, Pads, Instruments

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. February 16, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Couple, Guy, Female

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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.

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  Song, Sick, Listening

  "Grimes: 'Genesis'". Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. August 27, 2012.

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• I prefer making videos to making music.

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  Video

  "Grimes: 'Genesis'". Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. August 27, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Important, Four, Hours

  "Always Waiting For The Shivers To Happen: Grimes Interviewed". Interview with Angus Finlayson, thequietus.com. May 25, 2012.

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

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  Jeans, Wells

  "Grimes Gets The Ladylike Treatment For 'T'". www.mtv.com. October 19, 2012.

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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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  Girl, Kind, Pops

  "One to watch: Grimes". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2012.

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• I grew up with four brothers, and in the back of my head I feel pretty masculine. It's always funny when I hear recordings of my voice, because it's so deep when I hear it in my head.

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  Brother, Masculine

  Source: pitchfork.com

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