Grimes
Grimes
Electronic dark wave and synthpop artist whose 2012 album Visions won the 2013 JUNO Award for Electronic Album of the Year.
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth17 March 1988
CityVancouver, Canada
CountryCanada
bad
The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety.
sick performing hard
I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I'm on tour, and it's just hard.
stars crazy stuff
I approach music- and this sounds crazy- as though I'm Phil Spector, and I'm cranking out these pop stars and forcing them to do all this stuff-except they're all me. But I'm not, like, transgendered.
creativity stimulation term
Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity.
people want
Especially with music, people want confidence.
thinking missing links
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.
cities america culture
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.
girl kind pops
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.
block artist people
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.
rocks tin done
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.
icons people looks
If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship.
heart broken care
I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
humanity the-end-of-the-day landscape
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.
people humanity way
I love humanity, I love the way people look