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
ball came hard hitting slowly team today
We started off slowly and have been working on that and today it all came together. We are a pretty young team so hitting the ball that hard all day long is encouraging.
bases loaded stranded
We stranded a lot of runners. We had the bases loaded in the first and didn't do anything.
free life speaking talking
In 'Out of the Dark,' I'm talking about my own life. I'm not talking as a character or speaking as a character. I was not as free as when I write fiction.
across page power seemed spread time transport
It seemed uncanny that words, spread across a page just so, had the power to transport me to another time or place. But they could.
adult along books couple funny happened kept looked originally planned return
Originally I had planned to write just a couple of children's books and then, return the focus on adult literature. A funny thing happened along the way - I kept having new ideas, and then I looked up one day, and 30 years had passed!
books hours local spent
I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight.
badly betrayed broken child existence faced few fewer foster gave home problems spoke stories
In one sense, the stories I read betrayed me. Too few gave me back my mirror image. Fewer still spoke to, or acknowledged, the existence of the problems I faced as a black foster child from a dysfunctional and badly broken home.
Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised.