Grimes Quotes

Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to hear the answers.

For me, I grew up in a house doing charity work for homeless people, and my parents had a lot of homeless friends. We were always taught to not discriminate and not judge.

The older pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub. He doesn't try to do it all himself.

Although abortion has been legal nationwide for more than a quarter century, access remains difficult for many women.

Basically, I'm really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.

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

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

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

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.

Not to sound cliché or anything, but with the downtime that I have and the possible platform that my work could give me, I'd like to figure out a way to give back and make a difference, you know?

My job has me traveling all the time, and I got this house, so my downtime is spent sort of making a home. Every year it's different, and I try to do things that are more fulfilling.

I'm working on my house and playing with my fire pit and kind of just hanging around and making my home feel homey.

I'm so southern Ohio. And Cleveland is a different world, you know?

An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.

When I go outside in the morning for coffee, I'm not going to spend forty-five minutes getting ready. I just don't care.

I believe increasing minimum wage it's not just the minimum wage, it's a living wage.

Well, I am as much a cheerleader for President Obama as Sen. McConnell is a Chippendale dancer.

If Mitch McConnell were a TV show, he would be ‘Mad Men,’ treating women unfairly, stuck in 1968 and ending this season.

The only candidate pocketing big money from people who want to destroy coal is Mitch McConnell.

I had a lot of fun [on The Voice] and I learned a whole lot about reality TV, for one, and how they kind of use the artists as characters to make a hit TV show.

I like being behind the camera because I can control perception and what people see.

I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.

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.

Most of my music videos were made for under $200.

I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I'll black out the windows or something.

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.

I don't own anything designer.

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

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

I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.

I listen to a lot of medieval music.

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

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

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

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

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

I love humanity, I love the way people look

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.

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.

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.

I think a lot of music that's really innovative is not even considered because it was made by people who had a sexual image. And people assume that it's a commodified thing, so it can't be "indie."

I usually like to get people in because I don't have a band or anything. In cities where I have friends, I try to get them to come out and dance for me.

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!

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.

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

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

I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.