Quotes from Grimes

I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it's the only thing that I can really know, I guess.

I need to be able to work for 20 or 30 hours in one go in complete darkness, alone with just the computer glow.

By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself.

I think Canadians make a lot of music because we're stuck inside all the time.

I think I have serious latent Catholic guilt issues.

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.

The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they're having a good time.

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!

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.

I'm tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.

I want to make an a cappella record to release for free.

I'm not interested in making art unless I'm totally freaked out and worried people are going to hate it.

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

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

The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.

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

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

My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.

A.I. is actually the fastest path to communism

Miami is just really fun whenever I go there. It's like this post-apocalyptic Barbie world: everything is pink, and there're palm trees everywhere.

I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I'm on tour, and it's just hard.

I'm a very nervous, shy person.

If you tell someone you're doing something innovative, they'll think you're doing something innovative.