Quotes from Grimes

I listen to a lot of medieval music.

I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.

If you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you're doing musically.

I'm not good at being, like, a sexy girl.

Usually I perform with dancers.

I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do.

I've seen Animal Collective live, and I suffered permanent hearing loss from that show!

I'm actually not a particularly negative person, but I feel like most things are better when they're not actualized. The motivation that comes from wanting something is so much more driving of people than actually getting it.

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.

I can't censor myself; it's really important for me to say how I feel.

Ugly girls generally don't become successful in music. And it sucks because it's a standard that just exists.

Whenever I'm making music I'm always waiting for the shivers to happen - that's an important thing for me.

I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

It's interesting to be a front person who is controlling the majority of the sound.

Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.

I don't own anything designer.

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.

I always wanted to be really experimental.

I want to say my life inspires my lyrics, but I also try to abstract them as much as possible because I don't want to refer to my life explicitly. I'm definitely really embarrassed by my lyrics.