If I went on 'American Idol,' I would definitely be kicked out immediately.
— Grimes
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.
The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they're having a good time.
I was incredibly unpopular in high school but also extremely notorious.
Usually I perform with dancers.
I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
I'm tired of being considered vapid for liking pop music or caring about fashion as if these things inherently lack substance or as if the things I enjoy somehow make me a lesser person.
The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human beings to do. Once you put in the effort, the learning curve is very fast.
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.
I don't even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.
I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it's the only thing that I can really know, I guess.
My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.
It's interesting to be a front person who is controlling the majority of the sound.
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.
My favorite music is never the music that anyone else likes, and other people's favorite songs are always my least favorite.
I've always been very intense about everything I do.
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.
I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.
I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.
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 always wanted to be really experimental.
I'm a super-introverted person.
I can't censor myself; it's really important for me to say how I feel.
It's obviously funny to be a meme, so I could be down with it in that regard, but it also belittles one's art.
My dream job would be sitting in a room, cranking out hits for Rihanna.
I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.
I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.
I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there.
I'm tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
I'm against spending money to record.
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.
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 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 you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you're doing musically.
