Quotes from Grimes

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.

I'm not trained in music.

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.

My dream job would be sitting in a room, cranking out hits for Rihanna.

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

I love humanity, I love the way people look

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.

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. But then there are also all these people in crazy sunglasses, warehouses with sick parties where all the girls are covered in spikes and black leather. It's a very weird place.

When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do.

If I went on 'American Idol,' I would definitely be kicked out immediately.

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.

Obviously, I like things that are cute and aggressive at the same time, but I didn't want it to just be mini-bangs and lip-syncing in a dress. I need to get away from that stuff.

Especially with music, people want confidence.

There's definitely a solitary aspect to not having a band, and there are times when I wish that I did.

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.

There used to be a lot of industry in Montreal, and now there's not, so it's really easy to get huge, empty spaces where you can practice and make music or make art for very, very cheap.

I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.

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.

I think if you're good at art, you'll be good at most types of art.

I'm against spending money to record.

I went through my adolescence having this revelatory experience - I can have any music I want, and I can get it immediately. For me and for a lot of people I know, there's this musical eclecticism that happened.

If I'm a bad mood, I can't go on stage and smile.

I've always been such a nerd.

I'm a very unhealthy person, and Montreal is very cold, and I'm usually sick when I'm there.